Fisk University opened in Nashville in 1866 as the first American university to offer a liberal arts education to “young men and women irrespective of color.” Five years later the school was in dire ...

The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a renowned ensemble based at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., will be the featured performer at the 2017 Expressions of King’s Legacy at Rochester Institute of Technology ...

Andrew Davis knew early on what his main extracurricular activity in college would be, well before the first day of school. “I wanted to be a part of the Fisk Jubilee Singers ever since high school,” ...

Shortly after the Civil War, John Wesley Work II, a Black church choir director in Nashville, Tenn., was faced with a choice: He could either continue as a Greek and Latin professor at Fisk University ...

The year was 1871, and Fisk University was struggling. Fisk was just a few years old then - one of the institutions founded in the South to educate Black people after the Civil War. The school's choir ...

A hush fell over the more than 500 people in attendance at the Historic Grove Theatre when the Fisk Jubilee Singers entered the auditorium on the evening of Good Friday evening. “I felt as if I was in ...