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 ...

The Kimmel Center’s main concert venue was formally renamed Saturday after the legendary opera singer Marian Anderson, a South Philadelphia native, who broke racial and gender barriers with her fame.

Smithsonian Music interviews Curator Leslie Ureña, of the National Portrait Gallery, about the upcoming exhibition, “One Life: Marian Anderson.” Dr. Leslie Ureña & Kate Stein June 28, 2019 - May 17, ...

History, we know, is always in the making — an aggregate of small actions, reactions and interactions, every flap of every butterfly’s wings. Yet most of the time, we have no idea what will come of ...

Tindley Temple United Methodist Church held a special service Sunday to honor the civil rights pioneer and opera singer. The restored gold cross on the exterior of Tindley Temple United Methodist ...

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 ...

In 1942, singer Marian Anderson visited Tucson to perform in a concert at the University of Arizona. While here, she visited, ate lunch with and performed for students at Dunbar school, which at the ...

Produced last Thursday and Friday at the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater, Houston Grand Opera’s hour-long chamber opera sent a timely and slightly disquieting message: music may indeed move mountains, ...