Mat Callahan is a musician and insurgent historian whose latest project is, “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation.” The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a ...

Music can be used to preserve emotions and stories, even from centuries ago. A recent project is working to share the songs and music by enslaved people and abolitionists from American history. Dr.

Faithfully recreating the music of slave organizers, freedom fighters, and abolitionists, a recent compilation sheds light on the politics of collective liberation at the root of 19th-century American ...

Reviving the past through music – singers in Fayetteville are using their voices to honor black history and keep it alive. They are the Heritage Restoration Chorale. They are songs we don't hear much ...

Amos C. Brown Jr., vice chair of the California Reparations Task Force, right, holds a copy of "Songs of Slavery and Emancipation" during a group photo at the Capitol in Sacramento in June. (Rich ...

BEREA — Dr. Kathy Bullock and Friends will perform the “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation,” a powerful composition originally written and sung by enslaved people in hopes of freedom on Sunday, Sept.

We forward in this generation the first step: a landmark 1722 legal decision ruled slavery wasn’t supported by English law If you believe everyone has the right to a life of opportunity and justice, ...