It’s not just the megastars. In Minnesota, many musicians have lent their voices – and drum kits — to vigils, benefit ...

The students walked from the High School about a mile away to a high-visibility intersection on North Elm Street.

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Rutha Mae Harris, the final surviving member of the original Freedom Singers, continues her work in Albany, Georgia, six decades after the Civil Rights Movement. She remains dedicated to showing ...

He was one of the most gifted voices in music history — a Motown genius whose songs still soundtrack heartbreak, protest and ...

Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Nina Simone … none of them could have dreamed of a stage like this. Rows of field laborers hacking at sugar cane with machetes. Workers in harnesses dangling from power poles as ...

The 'Streets of Minneapolis' by Bruce Springsteen ignited memories of great protest songs.

Historians have debunked many of the popular theories surrounding the tune's creation. Still, its legacy as a patriotic ...

In early January, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, a concert benefit for Palestine and Sudan conjured all the fury of an acoustic night at the local coffee shop. Musicians played stripped-down ...

The history of American protest music and how it has intersected with politics is the subject of a fascinating new book, On the Record: Music that Changed America, by Anna Harwell Celenza. Each ...

Among the historic wins, spirited if chaotic tributes and breakthrough moments for new talent at Sunday's Grammy Awards, one small pleasure was the emergence of a new comedy duo. Twice during the ...

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