Marian Anderson looms large in history not only for her achievements in classical music, but also for the strides she made for Black artists in the mid-twentieth century. Since her career took off in ...

Marian Anderson’s rich contralto voice is one that will forever reverberate through the chronicles of American history. A trailblazer for Civil Rights, she remains a symbol of grace and courage in the ...

DAR Marian Anderson Legacy Scholarship Now Accepting Applications, Apply by Jan. 31 ...

Marian Anderson was the first African-American soloist to perform with the Metropolitan Opera and paved the way for such future greats as Leontyne Price and Jessye Norman. She had a purity of tone in ...

Sixty years after the March on Washington, a piece of history lives on at Philadelphia's National Marian Anderson Museum. The museum tells the story of Anderson, a woman who gave voice to a movement.

Eighty years ago Marian Anderson sang at the Lincoln Memorial after the African-American performer was denied use of the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall. Now we're going to ...

The annual award given to a high-profile entertainer for their social impact will now be administered by an after-school music education program. File photo: The founding members of Kool & The Gang, ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The Marian Anderson Historical Society & Museum in Philadelphia will hold its annual winter concert next month. The fundraiser will support efforts to rebuild after the house the ...

On January 7, 1955, Philadelphia-born Marian Anderson (1897-1993) became the first African American to sing with the New York Metropolitan Opera. In June of that year, Richard Avedon photographed ...

In the living room of the Marian Anderson Museum in Philadelphia’s Graduate Hospital neighborhood is a small couch, where in 1924 Orpheus Fisher, then a 24-year-old architect, first expressed his love ...

Five years ago, a burst pipe soaked much of the late singer Marian Anderson's former Philadelphia home, today a museum dedicated to her artistic and civil rights legacy. Gowns, sheets of music and ...