A stained-glass image of John Newton, the man who wrote "Amazing Grace." | Adam Jones, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 Travelers driving the coast of Donegal, Ireland, may be puzzled by the road ...

Yet it sold more than two million copies in the United States, earned double-platinum status and remains the best-selling ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Mary Hoffman’s groundbreaking Amazing Grace gave us one of the first black heroines in a picture book. Twenty-five years on, Mary Hoffman tells us how she wrote it – and why picture books still have a ...

The long-shelved Aretha Franklin concert film Amazing Grace will receive a nationwide release in early 2019. Following the Queen of Soul’s death in August, the 1972 film was finally unveiled at the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In his inauguration speech on Wednesday, President Biden called for bringing unity to a deeply hurt and divided country. "This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge," Biden said. "And unity ...

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. Amazing Grace was the perfect choice. It is easy ...