Cooley Law School. She also co-hosts Genealogy Roadshow on PBS. In this blog post, Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and ...

United States Women's National Team star Midge Purce had an awkward interaction recently with fellow NWSL player Nikki ...

When slave traders arrived in Sierra Leone ... rituals and art—including Dawley’s ancestral song. Turner, the scholar who first recorded Dawley’s melody, counted Zora Neale Hurston among ...

Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when the song uses whipping imagery as it attempts to demonstrate the sexual prowess of Black women. But yet that’s ...

The song was linked to the Anacreontic Society ... The third verse is probably the most historically problematic verse. Key was a slave-owner with anti-abolitionist views, and in this verse ...

King Charles has told world leaders that the past cannot be changed, as he indirectly acknowledged calls from some of Britain ...

These are just some of the Black gospel artists shaping the genre with powerful voices and unwavering faith, from legends […] ...

Song of the Bandits uses classic Western tropes and Korean history, putting a unique twist on the genre that deserves more ...

Idd Aziz's 'Fatuma' has been described as a soul stirring single honouring the resilience and unwavering spirit of our ...

As if the Los Angeles Clippers’ new Intuit Dome isn’t cool enough, Steve Ballmer enlisted one of the movie industry’s most ...

Yet another Robert Burns song, “Parcel of Rogues,” describes Scotland as having been sold out for “hireling traitor’s wages.” “Hireling and slave” is not an accidental pairing ...

Cooley Law School. She also co-hosts Genealogy Roadshow on PBS. In this blog post, Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and ...