A sold-out recital in March 1940 forever changed the story of downtown Medford’s Holly Theatre. Classical singer and Black civil rights activist Marian Anderson, who was denied performing in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

History, we know, is always in the making — an aggregate of small actions, reactions and interactions, every flap of every butterfly’s wings. Yet most of the time, we have no idea what will come of ...

Three years ago, fourth-graders at Chester A. Arthur Elementary School in South Philadelphia researched their school’s namesake. The students learned America’s 21st president had signed the Chinese ...

Feb. 27, 1897 — Born in Philadelphia. Early 1900s — By age of 6, Anderson gained attention for her voice in the African American Union Baptist Church choir in Philadelphia. She also performed with the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera singer Latonia Moore performed 'My Country, Tis of Thee' following in the footsteps of her idol - legendary singer and civil rights icon, Marian Anderson. "In my life and ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Since it opened in 2001, the main performance venue inside the Kimmel Center, the ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Key events in the life of pioneering contralto Marian Anderson, whose name replaced Verizon on the Philadelphia Orchestra on Wednesday: Feb. 27, 1897 — Born in Philadelphia. Early ...