“The genre that we think of as protest song has an immense amount of diversity around it,” said Dr. Elizabeth G. Elmi, assistant professor of music at Williams College. “Protest songs are inherently ...

Alabama visual artist and longtime musician/educator Lonnie Holley has announced a new album, the follow-up to 2023’s guest-stacked Oh Me Oh My. Tonky is out in March and also features a metric ton of ...

HONG KONG--Hong Kong’s leader said Tuesday his administration would keep monitoring for any non-compliance with a court order that bans a popular protest song, days after YouTube blocked ...

HONG KONG--An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of ...

We kick things off with Willie Dunn’s arresting “I Pity The Country” and wrap up with Nina Simone’s emotional “Why? (The King ...

If you've ever been to a protest, you know there'll be singing ... A tribute to the hip hop trio themselves, the song could equally work for the Occupy Central movement, with its never-give ...

Public Enemy’s frontman Chuck D called out fans for misusing his band’s protest song, “Burn Hollywood Burn,” during the Los Angeles fires. The ’90’s hip-hop group’s track, which repeats the line “Burn ...

Live is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a special episode in February and a documentary dropping on Peacock ...

Two prominent far-right extremists with central roles in the Capitol attack, Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart ...

Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements ...

And with this song, written in the autumn of 1963, he got just that - the ultimate "protest" song that notes the upheaval going on in the United States. The day after President John F. Kennedy was ...

Rage Against The Machine have reacted to outgoing President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon activist Leonard Peltier, saying that “Justice will finally be served”. READ MORE: ...