Happy Juneteenth! In a world where racism, the erasure of Black history and even attacks from the federal government try to take us out, Black people do as we always do: survive and thrive. Today, we ...
The voice of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer greeted downtown record shop GRAILS’ soundscape Monday, and it wasn’t in the form of speeches, or interviews. It was through song. Hamer’s singing ...
(The Conversation) — Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ever since the Civil Rights Movement. I have been ...
Lesson in which students listen to freedom songs and then create their own version of one of the songs. Part of the resource, 'Students Sit for Civil Rights.' CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.1 ...