Music has always gone side by side with politics, with great protest songs inspiring and soothing when needed. Here are some ...

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.

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

Though Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” isn’t a protest song in the traditional sense ... Gaga has long been an advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights. This is her most staunch way of declaring that ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

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Martin Luther King joined activists in Birmingham, Alabama, in their non-violent protest against segregation ... Discuss the methods of the civil rights movement. In particular consider how ...

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But there is one worrisome political development in particular that has received too little attention: Are we in danger of a protest song revival? In May, for instance, the rapper Macklemore ...

we can look back to other global movements that have successfully utilized protest songs. The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was marked by anthems such as "We Shall Overcome" and "A ...

A former West Virginia correctional officer has pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail The Latest As ...