Exploring the incredible legacy left by the defiant performer and songwriter Nina Simone, particularly her 1966 song 'Four Women', which typified the era.

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 ...

This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Civil Rights Heritage Center holds talk with jazz flutist about women in jazz ...

Campaign fliers and photographs from Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition remind us how Asian American activists participated in this multiracial political movement ... affordable housing, and civil ...

Not only was Cox a legendary folk singer, but he was known, too, as a fighter for social justice during the Civil Rights Movement ... blues and jazz. He told the site he was able to meld the ...