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Though she wears many hats, powerhouse Gospel singer Jekalyn Carr continues her winning season as a recording artist. In July, Carr will co-host the 37th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards alongside the gifted Kierra Sheard-Kelly.

GRAMMY Award-winning music group Maverick City Music and 16-time GRAMMY winner Kirk Franklin are bringing the injustices around mass incarceration–and the voices of 1,300 inmates–to center stage with the release of Kingdom Book One, available everywhere via Tribl Records and Fo Yo Soul Entertainment/RCA Inspiration.

In recognition of both Juneteenth and Black Music Month, the ABC News groundbreaking Soul of a Nation series will air Sound of Freedom—A Juneteenth Celebration (featuring Marvin Sapp), a one-hour primetime special on Friday, June 17 at 8/7c.

Ten-time GRAMMY nominee Tauren Wells has released his new album, Joy in the Morning. His new radio single, “Empty,” is a soaring piano ballad that is perhaps his most empathetic song to date.

Marvin Sapp is a mainstay in Gospel music in no small part because of his consistency. His 15th album, Substance—available now—is a lyrical and sonic masterpiece that demonstrates the depth and breadth of Marvin Sapp’s musical gifting.

GRAMMY-nominated, GMA Dove Award-winning and Stellar Award-winning worship leader and pastor William McDowell has released an exclusive live video of ‘Still Moving’ captured live at the last Habitation conference.

R&B, Urban and Gospel artist MAJOR. returns to his roots with his Urban Inspirational single debut, a reimagined version of the classic, “Whole World In His Hands.” The new single is available everywhere music is sold and streamed exclusively via MNRK Music Group.

In the movie, Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom, viewers are taken on a riveting journey that provides answers to these questions and more as it presents first-hand accounts of descendants of those emancipated during this significant time in our nation’s history. The film was released June 7, 2022 on YouTube.

Maverick City Music and Kirk Franklin kicked off the 37-date The Kingdom Tour, shattering records in the process. Hitting the stage to four crowds in Miami, Orlando, Tampa and Atlanta, the group broke the record for the highest gate gross amount.

Maverick City Music has released its newest single “Bless Me” is an infectious celebration of the bounties of life as they already are—taking the time to recognize the blessings already bestowed upon you rather than those you lack. As countless unyielding voices refrain, in stacks of traditional Gospel harmonies, “we’ve got everything we need.”