Country is big right now, but the Western genre is one that's been hit by plenty of scandal over the decades, with the dramas ...

By 1962 she became known as the “Queen of Folk” and was famous for her powerful interpretations of traditional songs. At the same time, Baez was heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement ...

Described as “a masterful, revisionist work” by the Booker Prize judges, James is set in the South just before the Civil War ... Everett includes “Dixie” and other songs that Emmett ...

Protest songs have been part of American history for centuries — from “Yankee Doodle” during the Revolutionary War period to ... heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement — both ...

Then, suddenly, absurdly, I came awake, as an old song started to play ... the hard young men of that old beachhead, or about their war, or even about cowboys in flight from homicidal girlfriends.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

A new release out this spring from Liberian-American singer-songwriter Mon Rovia focuses on his journey to finding empathy from grief, and making peace with the fact that he escaped Liberia’s civil ...

For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio ...

Despite soaring home prices and high mortgage rates, Gen Z Americans are finding ways to buy homes. More than a third report receiving cash gifts from family to help fund or cover their entire ...

But, if al-Sharaa and HTS do not move quickly to improve the economy, which contracted 84 percent during the war; if they seek to impose Islamic law—not an unreasonable concern given HTS’s ...