Classical singer and Black civil rights activist Marian Anderson, who was denied performing in the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall in segregated Washington, D.C., a year ...

Barrier-Breaking Opera Singer, Marian Anderson, Featured by National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Music interviews Curator Leslie Ureña, of the National Portrait Gallery, about the upcoming ...

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

The Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall will be renamed for singer Marian Anderson Donors of $25 million to the Kimmel Center want to rename the Philadelphia Orchestra’s home after Anderson, instead of ...

Named for the groundbreaking African American contralto, the Marian Anderson Vocal Award recognizes a young American singer in opera, oratorio, or recital repertory.

Opera singer Latonia Moore performed in the footsteps of her idol - legendary singer and civil rights icon, Marian Anderson.

The Study at University City will partner with Opera Philadelphia and Marian Anderson Historical Society for an interactive all-ages event incorporating music, art and literacy as part of the Free ...

Ron Frehm / Associated Press FILE – Singer Marian Anderson appears at the Ladies’ Home Journal’s “Women of the Decade Awards in New York on Nov. 28, 1979.

Because of a $25 million gift, the venue, Verizon Hall, will be renamed to honor Anderson, a pioneering Black opera singer.

The former Chester A. Arthur Elementary School in South Philadelphia, named after the 21st president, is now named after Philadelphia native and opera singer Marian Anderson. —LIBRARY OF ...

Marian, who moved to the city in the 1940s, was the first black opera singer to perform with the ...