Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...

The record was not a hit, but it remains one of the best reggae protest songs because it gave a point of view about an issue that really mattered at a time when black British voices went almost ...

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 ...

but to take direct action against one of its black performers, Paul Robeson. As Dorian Lynskey explains in his history of protest songs, 33 Revolutions Per Minute, “Before Seeger could even get ...

Good protest songs amplify the voice of the oppressed ... Blood on the leaves and blood at the root; Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

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 ...

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

Keedron's heartfelt song was praised by Barack Obama and Lebron James A 12-year-old black boy whose song about the fears of being a young African American went viral has been signed by a major US ...