On this Bubbler Talk, WUWM's Teran Powell looks into this question: Did Marian Anderson ever visit and sing in Milwaukee? If ...

Decades before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream Speech” at the Lincoln Memorial, Marian Anderson stood on the same steps and sang for an audience of 75,000 after being denied the chance ...

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 ...

The Black contralto put European art music and African-American spirituals in parity — and in her art, paved the way for generations of singers... Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer ...

Editor: I applaud the decision of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia to rename Verizon Hall the Marian Anderson Hall. Anderson was a great contralto and a native of Philadelphia ...

Worshippers gathered Sunday at Tindley Temple United Methodist Church to celebrate the legacy of pioneering opera singer and civil rights leader Marian Anderson. Anderson was a lifelong member of the ...