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.

Protest music is nothing new... the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and gay rights activism led to songs which showed solidarity or expressed the anger and pain of the artists involved.

The post Consequence Crossword: “Protest Songs” appeared first on Consequence. Exercise your First Amendment rights with “Protest Songs,” the new weekend edition of the Consequence Crossword.

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 ...

The death of George Floyd has prompted one of the biggest movements against racism since the civil rights era ... several protests, while streaming figures for songs that call out police violence ...

Billy Bragg's songs Between the Wars, It Says Here and Never Buy The Sun feature in the project's catalogue of songs A project to catalogue the rich history of the English protest song from 1600 ...