What has been a very good year for the live performance of gospel music on film is about to get better. First came the release of “Amazing Grace,” the record of a legendary 1972 Aretha Franklin gospel ...

Christian rapper Lecrae and producer Zaytoven's Let the Trap Say Amen flies in at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums chart (dated July 7), earning 11,000 equivalent album units (7,000 in… By ...

*Gospel music uplifts and inspires helping to brighten the dim lights of trouble and despair. “Precious Lord, lead me on, let me stand. I am tired, I am weak, I am worn.” Lyrics from the classic ...

Say Amen, Somebody, a documentary about the men and women who pioneered African American gospel music, was widely praised upon its release in 1982; the late Roger Ebert called it "One of the most ...

As filmmaking, George T. Nierenberg’s “Say Amen, Somebody” is perfectly capable, if pedestrian. Not that filmmaking is what this 1982 gospel-music documentary cares about. What the movie cares about ...