Minnesota governor and Democratic candidate for Vice President Tim Walz was back home Friday night to attend the Jug Game ...

Her musical roots lie in her family’s 1950s gospel group the Drinkard Singers (Houston was born Emily Drinkard in 1933). They were the first gospel group to perform with Mahalia Jackson and the first ...

Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two- time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar ...

Grammy award winning singer and the mother of Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, has died at the age of 91 at her Newark, NJ home.

Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998.

Singers Cissy Houston, left, and her daughter Whitney Houston appear at the “Keep A Child Alive Black Ball” in New York on ...

Cissy Houston, mother of the late Whitney Houston and an iconic gospel singer herself, has died. She was 91. Houston died at ...

Ethel Kennedy, the widow of slain presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and sister-in-law to former President John F.

In our time of deep sorrow, we announce the passing of Emily “Cissy” Houston, who transitioned today, Monday, October 7, at ...

In 2013, Houston wrote a revealing memoir titled, “Remembering Whitney,” where she wrote candidly about Whitney’s severe drug problems that led to her death by drowning in a hotel bathtub with traces ...

This is the latest episode of the Chocolate News Podcast. We bring you news that discusses issues affecting the Black community. On today’s show, we discuss the passing of Cissy Houston, Skyline Chili ...

The musical matriarch's death comes just 12 years after the loss of her daughter and nine years after the loss of her ...