How Billy Crystal's Uncle and Billie Holiday Made Black Music History with a Protest Song About Lynching (Exclusive)

Billy Crystal discusses the genesis of a Civil Rights Movement anthem created by Billie Holiday and his uncle Milt Gabler in the new PBS docuseries 'Black & Jewish America: An Interwoven History'.

Bruce Springsteen’s Song About Minneapolis Follows a Long Tradition of Protest Songs—Here Are the 10 Most Powerful

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...
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Two Nashville museums curating musical history added to Civil Rights Trail

The Jefferson Street Sound Museum and the Museum of Christian and Gospel Music in Nashville have been added to the Civil ...
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Reliving the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, and discovering an Illinois connection

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the ...

Civil War scholar and retired Gettysburg College professor Gabor Boritt dies at 86

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about ...

Where are all the protest songs?

Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...