Leading Black musicians in the Pacific Northwest create new traditions on Juneteenth. Songs of Black Folk, a new musical tradition, brings together the largest gathering of Black musical talent on a ...
“Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. ” — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk Hope lives in sound. It lives in memory. And in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the ...
The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the social revolutions of the 1960s. As folk singer Pete Seeger put it in ...