Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...

Stanley Nelson and Nicole London talk the roots of funk music and freedom. We Want The Funk! is now available on PBS.

As a minister in the Nation of Islam, he challenged the pacifism of the mainstream civil rights movement, encouraging Black Americans to defend themselves “by any means necessary.” His ...

Curtis Mayfield was one of the strongest musical voices during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and no song cemented ...

Funk music was a bold sound that perfectly encapsulated post-civil rights Black Pride. 'We Want The Funk!' tells the story of ...

Her debut album, Little Girl Blue, was deemed a commercial failure, but it helped to establish Simone as a stunning new voice for American jazz. In subsequent years, Simone managed to break into the ...

In a feature-length rockumentary on Sky Arts, The Selecter's Pauline Black looks back on her life and music career ...

In late 1961 the civil rights movement burst upon the scene ... She used the five-year grant to continue her work in African-American sacred music traditions, which resulted in the 1994 production ...

It starts, of course, on April 15, 1947, when he became the first African American to break the color barrier ... That same year, Robinson started getting heavily involved in the Civil Rights Movement ...

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the ...

Exhibits at the center feature the U.S. civil rights movement and human rights movements for global marginalized groups, including people of color, women, immigrants, people with disabilities and ...