New Orleans rapper and bounce queen Big Freedia has announced her first gospel album. Pressing Onward, which takes its name from the Pressing Onward Baptist Church, in New Orleans, is out August 8.

When the iconic “Queen Of Bounce” Big Freedia set out to make her first-ever gospel album, she did it to spread joy and hope to a world at a time when we needed it most. She never imagined how much ...

Big Freedia may be best known as the queen of bounce music, a New Orleans icon, and the standout feature on Beyonce's "Break My Soul." For now, anyway. With her new album, Pressing Onward, she just ...

Baptist preacher and blues musician the Rev. Robert Jones Sr. once told an interviewer that “the sacred and the secular grew up right next to each other,” backing his claim with Psalm 30:5: “Weeping ...

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has been a question on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword ...