As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...
Like the movement to unionize industrial workers in the 1930s and the African American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, the farmworkers’ movement was a singing movement. It consciously ...
The Civil Rights movement used music extensively, with songs like "People Get Ready" serving as anthems. Many protest songs from the 1960s remain relevant and are still sung at demonstrations today.
The controversial Mexican musical phenomenon known as the "Movimiento Alterado" arrives in San Diego on Thursday, with its explicit lyrics glorifying the violence and culture of drug traffickers.
OSSINING, N.Y. — Miriam, age 6, plays the drums, first cautiously, then with vigor. Around her, a mic stand is assembled, cables are untangled and a sound check begins. She sets the drumsticks down, ...
Ethiopian-American songwriter and performer Meklit Hadero is a dynamo. A force. A person to know and cherish. Her music is as spiritual as it is entertaining. Hadero’s latest project is MOVEMENT, ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Granville Historical Society is presenting "Songs of the American Temperance Movement: 1865-1920," in a program on Feb. 29 at ...
National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) will once again usher in Easter with its beloved annual sunrise offering, Morning of Movement and Music, set for Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026 at 6:00 am at Little ...