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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Ann Arbor community members gathered at the Gerald R. Ford Library to listen to a lecture and performance by Reverend Robert ...

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King Charles III acknowledged the “most painful aspects” of the Commonwealth’s past as he bid goodbye to Samoa after ...

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

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

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 ...