While working on the lower register of her voice with New York City singer Paul Reese, who first turned her toward folk music. By the 1930s and ’40s, the genre was driven by Peter Seeger and the ...

Revisiting the 1969 album 'The Spice Of Life' by Marlena Shaw, which captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s with its expansive sound and political activism.

The 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated on March 7. On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and Southern ...

LERONE MARTIN: He's known as the Happy Am I preacher, so he has this kind of charisma, smiling, very happy. My name is Dr. Lerone Martin, and I am the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research ...

Soul and gospel singer and civil rights activist Mavis Staples has been at it for seven decades, crafting a legacy most could only dream of.

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at ...

Curtis Mayfield wasn’t just a musician—he was a storyteller, an activist, and a visionary whose music still speaks to us ...

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

This means a musician can sell or license their song or pass it on to their heirs. The Constitutional Court undoubtedly considered whether IP rights needed separate mention. The Court concluded ...

attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group A North Dakota jury has begun deliberating on whether Greenpeace ...

Bella Lumina, a community adult treble choir with singers from around the Twin Cities, marked the 50th anniversary of ...