Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Queen Latifah has declined Philadelphia's Marian Anderson Award. She is citing personal reasons, but no other details have been given. Latifah was supposed to accept the award ...

Famed opera and spiritual singer Marian Anderson was a woman who broke many racial barriers. She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first ...

CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- The 2016 Marian Anderson Award gala was a star studded event for some of Philadelphia's best talent. The night was filled with great music from R&B bands like the Soul Survivors ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Ensemble Arts is proud to announce an endowed scholarship program established in memory of Marian Anderson, following the renaming of Verizon Hall to Marian Anderson ...

WASHINGTON — Undergraduate and graduate students studying music can apply for the DAR Marian Anderson Legacy Scholarship now through Jan. 31. Sponsored by the National Society Daughters of the ...

Prologue: October 1964 -- 1: Freedom's child -- 2: Singing in the dark -- 3: Deep rivers -- 4: Heart of a nation -- 5: Sweet land of liberty -- Epilogue: American icon, 1943-93 -- Acknowledgments -- ...

The Marian Anderson String Quartet, the first African American ensemble to win a major classical music competition, will be in residence at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from Wednesday, ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - February is Black History Month, and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continues to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students.

Three years ago, fourth-graders at Chester A. Arthur Elementary School in South Philadelphia researched their school’s namesake. The students learned America’s 21st president had signed the Chinese ...