As well as being an incredible songwriter and performer, Nina Simone was a tireless activist within the civil rights movement, which often influenced her music.

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Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...

To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles picks ten of his favourite pivotal protest songs.

Music and politics have been intertwined continuously and the relationship between the two exists at an all-time high in the ...

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On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated ...

It’s election season, and while the ballot is one way to make your voice heard, these artists believe in another way to ...

The song is actually about the Little Rock Nine during the Civil Rights Movement, and the story goes that McCartney leaned out the window and played it for the first time one night to fans camped ...

How Johann Sebastian Bach and the Little Rock Nine inspired one of The Beatles’ biggest hits—and one of the most covered songs ever ... role in the early civil rights movement.

Anything my song and Beyoncé's fabulous version can do to ease racial tension would be a great thing and makes me very proud.

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...