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.

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

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

The moment Bob Dylan pulled out an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25th, 1965, shook the United States ...

Finally on Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were erased as a judge signed an order during a ceremony ...

The Klan's activities increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked and killed both Black and ...

Clay became a boxer and suffered the indignation of winning an Olympic gold medal for the United States in 1960 and being ... during the years when the civil rights movement achieved its first ...

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

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...

Breland has a reputation for dropping bangers like “My Truck” and “Throw It Back,” but for his latest release, he wanted to ...

The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...