For over four decades, Bernice Johnson Reagon has been a major cultural voice for freedom and justice. An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born ...

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with an hour of gospel music from artists who performed on the Avenue, as we explore ...

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 ...

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once described the freedom songs of the civil rights movement as “ the soul of the movement.” Like the members of the civil rights movement, the anti-war ...

The 'Freedom Movement' for civil rights was a turning point in history - Martin Luther King Jr said there was one genre of music essential to powering it.

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 ...

Danny Glover produced and stars in this tale of a black teen who witnesses the first stirrings of the civil-rights movement in his Mississippi home town, then defies his father by joining in ...

Sam Cooke wrote “A Change is Gonna Come” shortly before his death in 1964. It is considered an anthem of the civil rights movement. Sam Cooke, a soul music icon who died 60 years ago this week ...