That’s what this song encapsulates for me." 'It’s a song about the black experience so maybe that, in a way, becomes protest' Essa released his track Justice on Juneteenth. 19 June is the day ...

Common elements like memorability, teachability and timelessness can lead to songs moving from the stage to the streets.

Black Lives Matter, and so on, the political energy once reserved for art (not to say actual politics) was channeled into social media. Of course, one cannot discuss the protest song as a genre ...

Alicia Keys, LL Cool J and the new wave of protest songs Beyonce drops live album with Netflix film Beyonce supports Black Lives Matter in graduation speech George Floyd's brother makes plea to UN ...

Murundak charts one of the most significant music events in Australian Indigenous history as the Black Arm Band draws on the power of protest song to call for freedom in a country trying to reconcile ...

Chuck D took to Instagram to explain the origins of the 1990 "protest song,'' and that it has nothing to do with the devastating wildfires.

and the inequity between black artists and the mainly white executives who profit from their work. Meanwhile, artists have channelled their frustration and anger into a new wave of protest songs ...