When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions ...

Ella Louise Jenkins, celebrated as the "First Lady of the Children's Folk Song," passed away on Nov. 9 at the age of 100. A visionary in children's music, Jenkins revolutionized the genre ...

Ella Jenkins, the Chicago-based singer and songwriter ... crafting many of her own original songs in the process. In the 1950s, she began her appearances on children’s television shows, which ...

Ella Jenkins’ repertoire of call-and-response songs have kept generations of children singing along for more than 50 years. On most of the folk songs Jenkins has recorded, children sing ...