Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of ...

June 17 has been a date marked by pivotal moments that have left a lasting imprint on history across the globe.On the ...

Known as one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Billie Holiday spent much of her ... controversial and heart-wrenching ballad, “Strange Fruit.” “I just asked God to give me all ...

For decades, the FBI has kept a close eye on Black musicians and other artists they saw as a threat to the status quo.

The late, great Billie Holiday was last in Tampa on the Chitlin Circuit at least 65 years ago. But Stageworks Theatre is bringing her music and spirit back to town in the last show of its 2024-2025 ...

Protest songs can be powerful tools of change, and some of the greatest protest anthems of the last hundred years are still used for rallies and campaigns today. Let’s look at four amazing tunes ...

A prisoner and a Catalan jazz artist perform over the phone from a maximum security prison in Ohio and have published an ...

A US prisoner on death row and a Catalan jazz star who formed an unusual musical collaboration have released a second album ...

An American prisoner and a Catalan jazz artist performed over the phone from a high-security prison in Ohio to release their ...

As human rights agenda takes front and centre of our national discourse, this could be Matiang’i’s Achilles’s heel.

In 1979, former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and cut a string of idiosyncratic yet impassioned socialist pop.

With her latest album, “the Crown,” Ledisi builds on what she is known for, “some feel good music for people to feel better.” ...