An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

Among other featured artists is Fortune, a local artist collective whose Annotated Readers (2021) project explores queer ...

When Rollins was twenty-seven, in 1958, he released “Freedom Suite,” one of the first recordings in postwar jazz to acutely protest racial injustice and demand civil rights. The liner notes ...

In a piece he wrote for the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival ... Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to ...

Six decades after Nat King Cole’s death in 1965, his music is still some of the most played in the world, and his celebrity transcends generational and racial divides. His ...