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How Waco, Texas, Became the Unlikely Center for the Study of Black Gospel Music
There’s a story behind how Baylor University in Waco, Texas, became the center of a significant project to preserve and store Black gospel music. Robert Darden, a member of the Overby Center panel of experts and professor emeritus at Baylor, tells the story.
Marty Stuart and the pilgrim’s spot: Philadelphia, Mississippi
Country music icon Marty Stuart along with the Philadelphia Arts Council restored the Ellis Theater in Philadelphia, Miss., to establish the Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music.