Award-winning roots musician and folklorist Chris Vallillo will bring his show, “Oh Freedom! Songs of the Civil Rights Movement,” to the Helen Plum Library on Monday, Aug. 18. The Civil Rights ...

Using a new online platform, performers from the William & Mary community will unite with various artists from across the country to honor giants of social justice. “Songs of Freedom: Concert for ...

An upcoming documentary and a new musical shine light on the life and work of Betty Reid Soskin, an activist, famed ranger — and musician. In a scene from a forthcoming documentary, Betty Reid Soskin ...

-My name is Starr, and this is Seth, and we are thrilled to share freedom songs with you today. This song was written over 50 years ago to encourage protesters as they took to the streets to march for ...

Black America has a long and winding history of using songs for defiance and consolation. Testimonies from slave ship sailors recall how kidnapped Africans during the Atlantic slave trade sang to send ...

The classic rock genre has been fueled by stellar songwriters and powerful bands who have managed to tap into the hopes and desires of their listening audience. One popular topic for these songwriters ...

RACINE -ÊWhen the slaves sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" while they labored in the cotton, tobacco, and sugar cane fields of the old South, they weren't singing about a heavenly carriage coming to ...