“From the beginning, the Sound of Freedom was a unique project. The roughness of the subject material made me doubt if I would be up to the task, and I went back and forth about it, but now believe I ...

Music has come to serve a higher purpose -- whether during rallies, marches or other forms of protest -- throughout much of the Black Lives Matter and Student Black Out movements that swept college ...

Every tale of struggle and triumph has its soundtrack, and African Americans’ fight for freedom in the U.S. is no different. From spirituals with roots in Africa to songs with hidden messages for ...

In the midst of the stirring “Glory,” the musical centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated movie “Selma,” South Side rapper Common delivers a terse summation of how words, melody and a protest merged during ...

The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as ...

If you were to compile its music onto a mixtape, you would get the distinct impression The Handmaid's Tale is feminist: it's brash, it's proud, and it's dedicated to giving a voice to women who are ...

Now the cathartic anthem graces Harris’ first campaign ad, in which she says: “There are some people who think that we should be a country of chaos, of fear, of hate. But us? We choose something ...

Night one of the 2024 Democratic National Convention featured a couple of major music moments, but maybe the biggest was from an artist who wasn’t actually in attendance: Beyoncé. The evening kicked ...

Hip-hop emerged from the voices of the unheard. But freedom doesn't ring the same for everyone. Inside all corners of the culture, Black women and queer folk have dealt with the same oppression the ...

A three disc soundtrack for the PlayStation Vita co-op hunting game, Freedom Wars, is scheduled to come out in Japan on July 23. First print copies will include a product code, likely redeemable for ...