One of the treasures of Black history is preserved in a plain gray box, stashed away in a quiet room. In Nashville one morning, as the Fisk University campus shimmered in the summer heat, I walked ...

Fisk University alumni are inviting the Nashville community to celebrate their homecoming and legacy of service.

A hush fell over Ryman Auditorium, Nashville’s “Mother Church of Country Music.” On the same stage where Hank Williams wailed “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and Patsy Cline wondered if she might be ...

Fisk University celebrated the 155th anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singers' first tour. In 1871, the a cappella group toured to raise funds for the financially struggling university. The tour ...

Fisk University is a private, historically black university, founded in 1866 and located in Nashville, Tennessee. It opened its doors in the same year that a terrorizing race riot broke out in ...

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Jubilee Day commemorated the extraordinary journey of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The singers’ courage, talent, and unwavering commitment to their alma mater have continued to ...

In 1871 the Fisk Jubilee Singers toured Europe to raise funds for Fisk University, an era recalled Saturday night at Baird Auditorium in a program sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates. Dressed in ...

Alice Randall, a renowned country songwriter and author, recently discussed the deep connection between country music and Black history at Fisk University. Randall's work, including her memoir "My ...