I spoke with someone recently who informed me that it was considered inappropriate, by their racial justice group, for white people to sing the social-justice anthem “We Shall Overcome.” As a ...

Pete Seeger celebrating his 90th birthday in New York on May 3, 2009. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Not that there's anything wrong with going after the money if you think you have legal entitlement to it, ...

Prayers of different faiths were said in different languages in Wednesday's interfaith prayer service remembering Martin Luther King Jr. Then the one-hour service ended with a chorus everyone knew.

Credit is finally going where it’s due. The song “We Shall Overcome” has left an indelible mark on American culture. Part gospel hymn, part protest anthem of the civil rights movement, the origin of ...

As marchers took to the streets of Boston in late April to demand justice for Freddie Gray, some of them began to sing: “We shall overcome, we shall overcome, we shall overcome some day ...” It wasn’t ...

"We Shall Overcome," a song that was the "unofficial anthem to the civil rights movement," was wrongly placed under copyright and should be put in the public domain, according to a lawsuit filed ...

I spoke with someone recently who informed me that it was considered inappropriate, by their racial justice group, for white people to sing the social-justice anthem “We Shall Overcome.” As a ...

Pete Seeger celebrating his 90th birthday in New York on May 3, 2009. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Hot on the heels of the news that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is the target of a copyright ...