Rock Ensemble carries on a women-led African American spiritual ritual, originally performed by enslaved Africans in the ...

started in April, 1906, with a group of African American washpeople ... It's this ecstatic free worship, a touch of the body, bodies touching where you had not had that so much in religious ...

I feared my address might clash with Christian ethos ... English language misrepresents African thoughts. Invoking the spirit of a late parent is not ancestor worship but remembrance.