Decades after Soskin first started writing these powerful songs, her music is reaching audiences beyond family and longtime friends through the documentary (view the trailer below) and a new musical, ...

Higginson had heard the songs in camps and on marches with colored soldiers. 3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the ...

Poles had to endure many hardships on the path to freedom – uprisings, wars, lengthy periods of occupation and repression. This path would have been even more arduous without the songs created by ...