Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the ...

Common elements like memorability, teachability and timelessness can lead to songs moving from the stage to the streets.

A Complete Unknown's account of Dylan's crucial transitional period misses the most interesting thing about it ...

The 'Freedom Movement' for civil rights was a turning point in history - Martin Luther King Jr said there was one genre of music essential to powering it.

Westport Country Playhouse, the Bruce Museum, the Ferguson Library, UConn's Stamford campus and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ...

The youngest Freedom Rider, Charles Person, died at age 82, according to multiple news outlets. He left an incredible mark on history and was a hero who risked his life during the Civil Rights ...

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue present the acclaimed cross-cultural concert Soul ...

For Mr. Person, the campaign was an illustration of the power of nonviolence and collective action. It was also a deeply ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be released on Jan. 14. As an author and journalist ...

A group of 21 House Democrats signed a letter urging the president to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, according to a statement sent by the lawmakers to ABC News on Monday.