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

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 ...

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

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

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

In 1966, the famed communist folk musician Pete Seeger was invited by the Cuban revolutionary government to perform a series ...

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.

Among the rally-goers Tuesday was the president of the local NAACP chapter, students from Clark Atlanta University and ...

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 ...