Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the ...
The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement ... Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press. Crawford, Vicki L., Rouse, ...
Exploring the incredible legacy left by the defiant performer and songwriter Nina Simone, particularly her 1966 song 'Four Women', which typified the era.
The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved ... built a new church in 1965 during the Civil Rights Movement. That original site is on a visible ...
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march—one of the most defining moments in the U.S. civil ...
As a kid, Robert Logan lived right down the street from a fire station. He would watch the fire engine pass by his house, and dream of riding that truck one day. Now, he is a decorated firefighter and ...
“Baby 29-year-old me applied with no music to my name, but knowing the kind of work Kronos Quartet had done and the big swings they take,” she recalled. “I had an idea about the Lebanese ...
we document the pioneering role these men would play in the early civil rights movement. Relative to observably similar individuals from the same draft board, Black men randomly inducted into the Army ...
"The Intersection of Country Music and Fisk University" highlighted Fisk's iconic Jubilee Singers and former student Lil Hardin Armstrong.
The 48.3 million Black Americans in the United States are left wondering: With President Donald Trump’s direct assault on civil rights, federal agencies, and diversity, equity and inclusion ...
Black musicians faced discrimination ... Because hip-hop is generally seen as a type of music, many outsiders misconstrue what the movement is truly about, Rawls pointed out.
This is the most significant movement in this conflict that we have seen in two years of bloody stalemate. The RSF still holds parts of Omdurman and has shifted its focus to western Sudan.