To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's ... courtesy of probably the best gospel singer the world has ever given birth to. Her husband caught her ...

These songs and chants of freedom, sung by protestors, activists, and civil rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s, have now been taken up anew in "Soundtrack" by such contemporary performers ...

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 ...