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The Rev. Cynthia Liggon was installed as the new senior pastor of the Riverhead First Baptist Church during a ceremony on Feb. 21.

Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal life on the plantation. Their war cry became a weapon of worship that the ...

Artists like Lecrae and NF accumulate billions of streams as Gen-Z and millennials seek more uplifting content ...

Florida honors Allman Brothers guitarist Dickey Betts, singer of the hit song "Ramblin’ Man," with a memorial highway through his hometown.