Music was essential to the African-American struggle for civil rights and equality. "We Are Soldiers in the Army" demonstrates how the Black American traditional song repertoire and older styles of ...

During the civil rights movement of the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers traveled across the country to raise funds for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Their songs spread a message of ...

ALBANY, GA (WALB) - The soul and spirit of Southwest Georgia’s role in the Civil Rights Movement can best be encapsulated through song. Albany native Rutha Harris, one of the original Freedom Singers, ...

The eight-piece group represents Skid Row, a neighborhood in Los Angeles that contains one of the largest populations of people who are homeless in the U.S. “For us, freedom singing bring us close ...

Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African American vocal ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, died Tuesday at the age of 81. Her ...

At first, Charles Neblett rejected the call to join a singing group. He had been working in the Mississippi Delta in 1961 helping with the daunting task of registering Black residents to vote. But ...

The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a civil rights activist who co-founded The Freedom Singers and later started the African ...