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.

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 ...

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

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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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement and Peace Songs of the 1960s, reveal the vibrancy of the genre.

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

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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