Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Higginson had heard the songs in camps and on marches with colored soldiers. 3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the ...

urging listeners to "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds." Like many of the freedom songs the chorus references, "Redemption Song" responds to the ...

Chatham Community Library celebrates Black History Month with Reggie Harris' "Freedom Songs and the Civil Rights Movement" ...

The song “Freedom,” frequently used by Vice President ... The song makes several references to the history of slavery as the ...

Higginson had heard the songs in camps and on marches with colored soldiers. 3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the ...