Higginson had heard the songs in camps and on marches with colored soldiers. 3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the ...
Decades after Soskin first started writing these powerful songs, her music is reaching audiences beyond family and longtime friends through the documentary (view the trailer below) and a new musical, ...
In America, the land of the free, we saw in the past election that freedom is universally valued but not universally defined.
Domingos 'Berliku' Gabriel was a guerilla fighter and fought for East Timor's freedom. When he was not fighting, he wrote songs. "As I was always singing, our commander Xanana Gusmão called me ...
Poles had to endure many hardships on the path to freedom – uprisings, wars, lengthy periods of occupation and repression. This path would have been even more arduous without the songs created by ...
John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to ...
Harris used the artist's anthem "Freedom" in her first campaign video and often features the song at campaign rallies. The song is on Beyoncé's sixth album, Lemonade, which delves into questions ...
Kamala then came out of her campaign headquarters on Monday evening, walking out to Beyoncé's song, Freedom, featuring ...
Higginson had heard the songs in camps and on marches with colored soldiers. 3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the ...
Murundak charts one of the most significant music events in Australian Indigenous history as the Black Arm Band draws on the power of protest song to call for freedom in a country trying to reconcile ...