May 28, 2014For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change.
January 28, 2014Our senior writer remembers what the folksinger's music meant to him.
July 25, 2013Words of wisdom from Nelson Mandela, Maidred Maguire, John Lewis, Tim DeChristopher, Grace Lee Boggs and James Cone.
May 3, 2013Singer, song leader, civil rights activist and scholar describes how music helped demonstrators show solidarity and claim the agenda during the civil rights movement.
February 6, 1991 | The Songs Are Free with Bernice Johnson ReagonBernice Johnson Reagon discusses how black music has shaped the African-American experience and identity.
August 11, 1986 | Bill Moyers CommentariesMoyers points out the Reagan Administration's contrasting policies toward the ruling Sandinistas of Nicaragua and the government of South Africa.
