The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a film of the same name documents the process of discovering and recording American slave rebellion songs that ...

Genealogist Kenyatta D. Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and pass history down through generations.

It topped the US Billboard Hot 100, reached number two in the UK, and became the anthem of American Idol's elimination rounds ...

The cover of this sheet-music for "The Fugitive's Song" shows a fictionalized and inaccurate version of the escape from slavery of Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), who actually fled by ship.

Choreographer Karen Charles was thinking about making a dance set to slave songs, and about her own diverse dance company, when she had an a-ha moment: “I thought, ‘It’s easy to see the ...

12 Years a Slave is the most compelling film about music to be released this year, maybe this century.It's so many other things, too, as others have noted: a corrective to the weird cocktail of ...

Students at two Owen J. Roberts elementary schools will celebrate Black History Month on Tuesday with an entertaining and moving assembly about slave songs. During the assemblies at North Coventry ...

Slavery Is a Love Song. By Ta-Nehisi Coates. October 22, 2012. Share. Save "Emancipated Slaves" Photo by Myron H. Kimball. For the past week or so, I've been posting stories, with primary ...

Since his early songs, Kanye West has rapped about the legacy of slavery and its modern forms. His recent statements have stirred controversy.

Director Malcolm Washington, star Erykah Badu, and more on how the film adaptation of August Wilson's play draws on blues, work songs and spirituals.

Genealogist Kenyatta D. Berry examines how song was used by slaves to both communicate and express feeling in the moment, as well as and pass history down through generations.