Many classic folk songs and spiritual songs were born on plantations, used as a way for slaves to discreetly communicate with ...

Black music, between the last year of the Obama presidency, and the numerous high-profile deaths of Black people at the hands of police.

In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.

Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive. As such, music has always played an important part in protests, from Woody Guthrie to Bad Bunny. So it’s not a ...

Donald Trump last summer nominated Jeremy Carl to lead the Bureau of International Organizations. It’s a top position in the State Department, acting as the primary nexus between the U.S. government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The acronym appears to have emerged around the end of the Biden years. In 2024, the Washington Examiner was bemoaning the ...

On January 28th, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a protest song he’d written “in response to the state terror being visited on the ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...

"A White Jewish producer, and the greatest Black jazz singer of all-time, and an all-Black band, working together to produce art," Crystal says Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE ...

During tough times, protest songs can bring us together and spur us to action Peaceful protest is woven into the DNA of the United States, from the Boston Tea Party to the March on Washington. And ...