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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.

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

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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 ...

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College ...

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

To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles picks ten of his favourite pivotal protest songs.

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

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.

From her role as a Civil Rights activist to her transformative ... stemming from the Albany Movement. The group toured the country, performing songs that advocated for social justice and equality.

Here she explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first things that's important when you think about freedom songs and the Civil Rights Movement is to not actually ...