Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

including Rolling Hills Community Church and Brentwood Baptist Church. A Franklin congregation in Tennessee is joining the ranks of a Kentucky-based megachurch in a rare role reversal for church ...

A Franklin congregation in Tennessee is joining ... Rolling Hills’ satellite campus in West Nashville. Brentwood Baptist Church, with its flagship Brentwood campus of 7,000-plus parishioners ...

Jan. 3, 1987, marked a monumental moment in music history. On this day, Aretha Franklin — known around the world as the ...

A Franklin congregation in Tennessee is joining the ranks of a Kentucky-based megachurch in a rare role reversal for church culture in surrounding Williamson County. Franklin Christian Church is ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Jimmy Carter, a long-time member of the Baptist Church, came to understand the deep divide of race ...

Penn State Nittany Lions head coach James Franklin reacts with the trophy after defeating the Boise State Broncos in the Fiesta Bowl at State Farm Stadium. / Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images James ...

Aretha Franklin sang “God Bless America ... I will also think of Jan Williams, the pianist at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. “Carter said he couldn’t sing,” she told ...

7, 2024, in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt, File) Penn State head coach James Franklin talks with an official during the second half against SMU in the first round of the College Football ...

Aretha Franklin and Paul Simon played at his inauguration in 1977, and not surprisingly, he was friendly with the leading Southern rock bands of the time (some of whom came from his own home state).

The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.