Gospel legend Kirk Franklin from Fort Worth will be honored with Black Music Icon Award ahead of the 2025 Grammy Awards.

At age 11, he was appointed choir director at Fort Worth’s New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church. For $25 a week, the young musical prodigy led an adoring congregation in song.

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the world's largest digital collection of gospel music. Now, it wants to collect oral histories around its rare recordings.