With everything that’s going on in the world I've been thinking about the power behind people’s right to protest — and the equally powerful strength of a protest song. Music and protest go hand in ...

Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon knew the power of song. She learned it singing in her childhood Baptist church. Later, as an activist in the civil rights movement, her songs helped to change the world.

Black history has never moved in silence; it’s marched, chanted, and sung through generations of resistance, pride, and unapologetic joy. Black power music serves as cultural documentation and ...

"I don't think it's caught up to me yet — how much my life has changed," says Emma Hardyman, singer of the 2023 Tiny Desk Contest-winning band Little Moon. The Utah-based band recently wrapped up the ...

This new series interviews iconic artists about legendary songs, detailing, in their own words, why and how they came about. Public Enemy didn’t know it, but “Fight the Power” was about to become a ...