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 ...

That track is just one of many, which speak to the power of music to make change – fom Pete Seeger’s unofficial anthem for the Civil Rights Movement to Childish Gambino’s satirical ...

The death of George Floyd has prompted one of the biggest movements against racism since the civil rights era ... and anger into a new wave of protest songs, directly inspired by Mr Floyd's ...

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 ...