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, ...

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 ...

Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in verse that centers around a young pianist in East Germany trying to make sense of love, duty, and the pursuit of dreams during the ...