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

When Chuck D of Public Enemy famously called hip-hop “the Black CNN,” he was touching ... Our list of the 100 Best Protest Songs spans nearly a century and includes everything from pre-World ...

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 ...

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 ...