Independence Day, celebrated on July 4 of every year, is a national holiday commemorating the ratification of the Declaration ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned ...

Six-piece reggae band IrieBellion, based in Taos, New Mexico, has released a new single to advocate for the release of ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

NewsNation Chief Washington Anchor and On Balance host Leland Vittert gives you an early look at tonight’s 7 p.m. ET show.

Peter Tanaka is a fourth-year student at Union and cochair of its student senate. He identifies as half Japanese and half ...

The songwriter who penned "Puff the Magic Dragon" and was part of an iconic anti-war folk group in the 1960s died Tuesday.

"I had to get over that a long time ago," said David Bowie. “But then as we all know, history is all revisionism. One makes ...

Other times, it takes a little longer to finish a song, as in the case of Gretchen Peters' "Independence Day," recorded by Martina McBride in 1993. The song, which deals with domestic abuse, was a ...