On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...

In Dublin for a screening of I Am A Noise, a powerful documentary on her life, folk icon Joan Baez discusses her first act of ...

The Movement School in New Market, Tennessee. The center was founded in 1932 by “Myles Horton, Don West, Jim Dombrowski and others.” It began as an educational center to fight segregation and unfair ...

But ICE officials lacked a search warrant. Community activists took Aguirre to Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast ...

At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, ...

So, this month as we commemorate Black History, let these words of an old civil rights anthem be our theme song ... who covered the civil rights movement, will be presented with the National ...

King considered the Impressions' song "People Get Ready" the unofficial anthem of the civil rights movement. Many of the ...

15. Pete Seeger, 'We Shall Overcome' (1963) This was one of the civil rights movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title ...