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 ...

One hundred years ago today, also on Memorial Day weekend, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated here in Washington, D.C. Since then, it has been the site of some of the most iconic gatherings in the ...

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 ...

Denyce Graves, American mezzo-soprano opera singer (and legend) said that when speaking about singing. If this is true, then the voice little Marian Anderson heard streaming through an open window one ...

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 ...

A study of the artist and civil rights advocate’s life, career and legacy, this film has the advantage of her speaking as well as singing voice. Marian Anderson recorded more than 30 cassette tapes of ...

The Lincoln Memorial has held some of the most important cultural moments of the last 200 years - like when singer Marian Anderson, denied a stage due to her race, was offered to play at the memorial.