The Civil Rights Movement challenged racism ... there were poets who spoke and sang their lines and new songs from Black musicians. The music and the word was about the redefinition and ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music ... Civil Rights-era freedom songs (with an assist from Brooklyn art-rock legends TV on the Radio. The music video offsets black-and-white ...

The Congressional Black Caucus stood in firm support of Green's actions and, in their own move to disrupt, CBC members sang "We Shall Overcome," an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, as Johnson read ...

This is the greatest love, a love supreme. The Civil Rights Movement captured this ethic. While Coltrane was soulfully revolutionizing jazz, the Black church was composing their own paean to the ...

Six decades after Nat King Cole’s death in 1965, his music is still some of the most played in the world, and his celebrity ...

Archival, grainy black-and-white footage from the civil rights movement was spliced between ... will stay on as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra. Theater’s Most Powerful ...

The civil rights activist visited the town just days before his assassination in 1965. The Six Triple Eight tells the story of the only black ... in the civil rights movement.