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.

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

The songs of freedom grew louder, as one era of oppression ended and another began, especially here in the South. The killing of a 14-year-old in Money, Mississippi galvanized the civil rights ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center is offering the world premiere of a new jazz oratorio "Rustin in Renaissance," a tribute to the Civil ...

Unfortunately, not all sentiments expressed in songs deserve to live forever ... Confederacy and the song “Dixie” do, spinning the Civil War’s “rebels” as Yankee victims.

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

Here are our top Beatles songs ever recorded ... 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 ...

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

Ahead of the release of the the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Joan Baez's “Diamonds & Rust,” which is about her ...

Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big ...

Legendary singer and activist Barbara Dane died in her Oakland home Sunday. She was 97 years old. In the 1950s, Dane became a ...

On Oct. 4, British rock band Coldplay released their 10th studio album, “Moon Music.” The cover features a picture of a ...