Music was the heartbeat of the Civil Rights era. It provided a powerful voice for change by transforming spirituals and folk ...

The Howard University lecturer, who just nabbed her second consecutive Grammy nomination, “encapsulates the sound of Black ...

Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is ...

Margaret Bonds grew up around civil rights activists, and her work as a musician continued this fight. Her piece Montgomery ...

As testimony to this glorious tradition of marrying music and social change, the Main Public Library at 615 Church St. is sponsoring a program called “Music of the Civil Rights Movement.” Guy Carawan, ...