On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a bill making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States. The tune was once a pub song, now it is performed at most sporting ...

South African cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe talks about his new album "Hymns of Bantu," which highlights the healing ...

We focus on champions of civil rights [but] rarely talk about the Black Christians whose spiritual passion made our country ...

In the second extract form his critically acclaimed biography, Paul Hindmarsh charts Wilfred Heaton's musical apprenticeship.

Russian President Vladimir “Putin brutally combats freedom and its defenders. Navalny’s work was all the more brave,” said Scholz in a post on X. “His courage made a difference and reaches ...

The War and Treaty talk with Billboard about their genre-melding new album, country radio and building Strong World Management.

The Angelina Community Theatre is putting the finishing touches on its annual Black History Month show. This year’s program is “Oh Freedom! The Story of the Underground Railroad,” a musical by Peter ...

The power of music and the singers’ voices boomed through the room and high ceilings, which included songs such as Oh, Freedom! and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

This February, African Heritage Month, let the Dalhousie Art Gallery be a beacon for community power, intergenerational knowledge sharing and creative resistance. Let it be a salve for the ...

The international airport on the island of Zakynthos and a square in Nicosia, Cyprus, is also named after Dionysis Solomos. The National Anthem of Greece consists of the first two verses of the poem ...