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.

A judge in South Carolina has erased the records of seven Black men arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-white lunch ...

She was highly regarded as a folk, blues and jazz singer. She was also ardently left-wing and prioritized social change over commercial success.

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The New Orleans City Council denied a proposal by the owner of Oretha Castle Haley's childhood home to turn the historic ...

In the wake of Ethel’s death, fans of Swift, 34, resurfaced interviews and clips in which the singer discussed how the civil rights activist’s love story with Bobby inspired a song off her ...

Grieving families say they want answers as to why a metal walkway at a state-operated dock in Georgia collapsed over the weekend, killing seven people The Latest Elon Musk is pledging to give away ...

Hundreds of people have turned out for the burial of Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers who was killed in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas ...

Buy that dream house: See the best mortgage lenders “This is the civil rights issue of our generation ... the work of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1960s Chicago. “Zoning in America was ...

America is at a crossroads. Darkness looms over the communities of Middle America. Build the center and the edges seep in and ...

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An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer will make history in December as the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing Tennessee's Republican-backed law ...