The song also was the subject of at least one book, "The Story of America's Most Beloved Song, Amazing Grace," written by Steve Turner and published in 2002 by Harper Collins. The song has had ...

At the funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator who was killed in the church shooting in Charleston, President Obama broke from his eulogy to sing ‘Amazing Grace,’ a ...

BALABAN: For a song with a 250-year history, the beauty of "Amazing Grace" is its ability to shapeshift. It's a religious text or not. It's a hymn or a gospel song or a folk song.

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. There is no shortage of versions of Amazing Grace.

Amazing Grace. By James Walvin. University of California Press; 216 pages; $19.95 and £16.99. I n 2015 Barack Obama gave the eulogy at a funeral service in Charleston, South Carolina, for a black ...

A s we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.”The hymn first appeared in ...

Turner said they took the song to heart, "because they knew what it was like, in a very real way, to be in exile." By the 20th century, "Amazing Grace" became more closely tied to Black spirituals ...

The music that we associate with “Amazing Grace” today is not what people sang for 60 years after Newton wrote it in (December) 1772.

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.”The hymn first appeared in ...

Years later, ‘Amazing Grace’ would become well-known as the anthem of the civil rights movement, despite its author being a former slave trader. Across two centuries, there have been more than 20 ...

In music industry circles, “Amazing Grace” is public domain. This means no one gets royalties for the song except those who have written alternate versions of it.