Staples, 87, began singing with her family as a child. The legend will perform at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday.

*Three-time Grammy-winning group Sounds of Blackness has spent decades using music to address social justice, racial pride ...

New Orleans Film Festival premieres documentaries about Irma Thomas, Dew Drop Inn, Bobby Rush, The Palm Court and high school ...

When did the protest song lose its hopeful edge?

The songwriting prowess of Paul McCartney helped bring The Beatles to international fame, and these three 1968 compositions ...

In 34 lines, James Weldon Johnson told of the pain, anguish, frustration, faith and hope former slaves and their descendants ...

A Tuscaloosa native is bringing an important chapter of the city's history to new audiences through an award-winning ...

In the late 1950s, music with a strong gospel influence began to emerge from the aforementioned R&B. Of course, it was also ...

These eight women and their families fought in a war known as America’s Civil Rights Movement. Over the weekend, they gathered, perhaps for the last time, as former President Bill Clinton and others ...

After a Supreme Court decision gutted the Voting Rights Act and majority-Black districts start to disappear, some are pushing ...

Nina Simone was one of the greatest songwriters and performers of the 20th century. Her unique fusion of classical, gospel, ...

Luis Valdez founded theater company El Teatro Campesino in 1965 to help encourage and educate farmworkers to join the strike.