Reba McEntire, Lauryn Hill and Post Malone honored Roberta Flack, Ozzy Osbourne, D’Angelo and more artists who died over the ...

After a man was shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Bruce Springsteen wrote a song, "Streets of Minneapolis," condemning the ...

Billy Bragg, who just wrote and released the song “City of Heroes,” talks with the Monitor about the impact of protest songs.

Lyric Baltimore is inviting the city to lift its collective voice during “Freedom Songs,” a free, immersive community singing experience led by internationally acclaimed vocalist and cultural educator ...

Every so often, a song arrives that doesn’t just top the charts but fundamentally alters the trajectory of music. These tracks carve new paths, break long-held conventions, and leave echoes that ...

The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission (MLTRC) has released its final report, outlining 84 recommendations for the state to reckon with its ...

Brooklyn Beckham accused his parents, David and Victoria Beckham, of "trying endlessly to ruin my relationship" in a January 2026 post on his Instagram Stories ...

Belzoni, Mississippi, a town of about 2,000 people, is known as the “Catfish Capital of the World”; it is also known as the site of one of the first civil-rights-era lynchings. On May 7, 1955, two ...

More than 4,000 lynchings happened in 12 Southern states between the Civil War and World War II, the EJI report found, with the most - 654 - documented in Mississippi. Another 361 were in Alabama, 549 ...

Maryland is recommending that $100,000 per person be issued to descendants of lynching victims after a state-sponsored lynchings study. The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...

A Maryland commission recently concluded that state leaders and institutions were complicit in 38 lynchings and the widespread racial terror that followed the Civil ...