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 ...

How The Beatles wrote 'Blackbird' to fight back at racism after Paul McCartney saw what was happening in the Civil Rights ...

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

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 ...

Mary's Boy Child and the UK number one Day-O (The Banana Boat Song). But his greatest achievements were as a campaigner for black civil rights in the US. He died of congestive heart failure ...

civil rights rally, August 28 ... The excitement around the film has, at least in part, helped one of Baez’s songs become popular again. Her single “Diamonds & Rust” debuts on a pair ...