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

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 ...

As she releases her second solo album Radios & Rainbows, Kate Pierson, the founding member of the B-52’s takes BEST FIT through the pivotal songs in her life.

Bill Pannell, who died on Friday (Oct. 11) at 95 years old, touched the lives of countless legions of others — including me ...

According to the mainstream media and Braden Memorial’s own website, it was the first Black church and first Methodist church ...

Many Civil Rights Movement leaders were young and gravitated toward Martin ... The final pages of the Citizenship Workbook were “Freedom Songs To Sing.” Songs included were: We Shall Overcome, Oh, ...

Washington DC has a lively scene for punk and go-go music, fighting against gentrification and conservatism in the nation’s ...

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have long been crucibles of excellence, forging some of the world's most ...

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