CHICAGO (WLS) -- After much planning and anticipation, Chicago's South Side honored Mahalia Jackson with a memorial plaza in the Chatham neighborhood Friday. Jackson, considered to be the greatest ...

New Orleans bookends Mahalia Jackson's life. The consensus greatest gospel singer of all time was born in the Black Pearl section of the Carrollton neighborhood on Oct. 26, 1911. She was buried in a ...

While exploring the Historic New Orleans Collection's archives several years ago, Glen Smith, a gospel enthusiast from Ohio, made a remarkable discovery: Little-known recordings of the late great ...

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