Sung an estimated 10 million times each year, "Amazing Grace" marks its 250th anniversary this New Year's Day. It was born not of American Black spirituals as some believe, but across the Atlantic, in ...

“We are on our way. . . . We’re on our journey home!” So declares the silver-clad choir, in buoyant triplets, upon entering the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, in Watts, Los Angeles. Theirs is ...

The new Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace — filmed in 1972 during the live recording sessions for her hit album of the same name, but not available for public viewing until today — is a ...

AMAZING GRACE co-producer Bob Beltz believes people need to see the movie now more than ever. AMAZING GRACE first came out in ...

In early 1972, Aretha Franklin recorded “Amazing Grace,” a collection of gospel classics performed over two nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. The legendary session — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we look at another New Year's Day, it's a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John ...

“This whole week, I’ve been reflecting on this idea of grace,” said President Obama today, just before he broke into song at the funeral for South Carolina State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, a pastor ...

When my wife and I started dating, she got free tickets to a gospel show at Radio City Music Hall. I never really listened to gospel but was aware of rock and R&B’s debt to it and figured it would be ...

It once was lost, but now is found. Well, not lost, exactly. But for 46 years, there seemed to be precious little hope that “Amazing Grace,” the documentary filmed during the live recording sessions ...

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...