On the evening of Oct. 10, Doudna Fine Arts Center hosted Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, a concert dedicated to teaching history through songs that were prevalent during the Civil ...

The Klan's activities increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked and killed both Black and ...

The civil rights movement brought a swift, often violent response from white segregationists willing to beat, threaten, and kill. By one count during Mississippi Freedom Summer there were 80 civil ...

Immigrants rights groups were joined by faith and labor organizations at a downtown Los Angeles protest against the looming ...

The statement did not say where he died. Britain’s civil rights movement of the 1960s is less well known, and had less impact, than the epochal struggles in the American South that produced ...

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 ...

23 2024. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith) FILE - Family home of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley, on 917-919 North Tonti Street in New Orleans, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Chris Granger/The Times ...

The U.S. Justice Department has been cleared to send lawyers to polling sites in Missouri and Texas on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws after those Republican-led ...

Here, Seeger performs the song by himself (with help from the audience) in 1956: 4. "We Will Overcome" Seeger didn't write the 1960s Civil Rights Movement anthem "We Shall Overcome," but he played ...

The actor said it was interesting trying to capture Dylan’s style of guitar playing, including favouring a lot of downstrokes to get the right urgency for the song. When internalising the power behind ...

Known as the "First Lady of Children's Music," Ella Jenkins has died at the age of 100. Her publicist confirmed the news of ...

James Monroe Iglehart and a stellar ensemble are absolutely mesmerizing in a timely biographical musical about the life and ...