We chant it with locked arms and closed eyes, at campfires, in protests lines and from the pews at church, but the truth is, many of us have no clue what the lyrics mean or exactly where they come ...

INTEREST in the spiritual song Kumbaya has rocketed after Kanye West misspelled the title in a racial slur against Trevor Noah. The attack landed the rapper with a 24-hour suspension from the social ...

We chant it with locked arms and closed eyes, at campfires, in protest lines and from the pews at church, but the truth is, many of us have no clue what the lyrics mean or where they come from.

We chant it with locked arms and closed eyes, at campfires, in protests lines and from the pews at church, but the truth is, many of us have no clue what the lyrics mean or exactly where they come ...

You know a nation is in trouble when the worst epithet its citizens can hurl at each other is the title of a folk song: “Kumbaya,” an African American spiritual whose name (and chorus) translates from ...

Regarding the rancor among the remaining Republican presidential hopefuls as they migrate from New Hampshire to South Carolina, Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor and erstwhile candidate himself, ...

The latest salvo in the endless assault on “Kumbaya” comes in a TV commercial for Bazooka bubble gum that began airing this month. It begins with a smarmy, 20-ish bearded dude wearing tie-dye, guitar ...

Rush Limbaugh won’t buy that preposterous tripe Hillary Clinton is selling about an America united by shared and everlasting values. On his show recently, Limbaugh expectorated: “This whole notion of ...

The latest in foolish commentary. “Put Out No Flags” is the title of Katha Pollitt’s latest diatribe in The Nation, and the title pretty much tells it. Pollitt begins with a heartwarming anecdote: “My ...