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On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – ...
It topped the US Billboard Hot 100, reached number two in the UK, and became the anthem of American Idol's elimination rounds ...
And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...
Featuring a mocking anti-religious lyric from lapsed Catholic Geezer, the romping After Forever is one of the most musically ...
Kendrick Lamar, Ledisi and others are creating the soundtrack for this cultural inflection point and for the legacy of ...
Feel the energy of I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE, a hard rock anthem with bold lyrics firepower and emotion that hits loud and deep from the very first line.
An original song Badu penned for the film, it is “a call to the music of the period,” Washington says, “but [also] a celebration, bodies moving and dancing.
A rare manuscript of a historical 18th Century slave song is set to go on display in Gloucester Cathedral. The cathedral said it is the world’s oldest surviving music manuscript from the voices ...
Rare slave song manuscript set for exhibition Gloucestershire Archives The cathedral said the manuscript is a UNESCO World Heritage document 27 July 2024 ...
Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. There is no shortage of versions of Amazing ...
Sci-fi thriller Slave (Abed) by Mansour Assad and Raven Song by Mohamed Al Salman took the top prizes at the ninth edition of the Saudi Film Festival, running from May 4 to 12 in the city of ...