2023 is the 250th anniversary year of "Amazing Grace." It was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years. You know those songs that you just kind of know ...

Tami Chappell/UPI/Shutterstock Funeral of Rev. Clementa Pinckney in Charleston, South Carolina, United States - 26 Jun 2015 While Barack Obama had a seasoned group of ...

Ramy Inocencio is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network in 2019 as CBS News' Asia correspondent, based in Beijing and reporting ...

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 Newton’s New ...

Here's what led to the president singing at the funeral service. — -- President Obama’s singing of “Amazing Grace” during the eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was killed last month in a ...

“Amazing grace,” intoned the eulogist, and repeated it. He began to sing: “how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me,” and the congregation, a bit startled, joined in, as the pianist scrambled ...

When Phyllis Adams and Leila Bolden stood in the middle of Washington National Cathedral on Thursday to sing President Jimmy Carter home with a stirring rendition of “Amazing Grace,” it was a song ...