United in Praise Student Gospel Group Celebrates God

This year, the student gospel group United in Praise has performed for several on-campus events, including a fall concert in Duke Chapel and also for off-campus events in North Carolina and Virginia. The Rev. Racquel Gill, the Chapel’s minister for intercultural engagement, serves as the advisor to the group and its eighteen members.

United in Praise is one of the oldest continuous student groups at Duke. In the mid-sixties, a time when Duke did not openly embrace its diversity, the Modern Black Mass Choir (as it was named then) was organized in a local Black church for Duke’s Black students. In the late nineties, the choir was renamed United in Praise, and since then has maintained its commitments to Christ, Duke, and the Durham community.