Some right-wingers charged that the performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of the Super Bowl promoted "segregation.

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...

There will be a special choral prayer service at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, commemorating the Rev. Absalom Jones, who was born into slavery and became the first African ...

These iconic Kenyan hip-hop songs transcended entertainment, becoming cultural touchstones. They shaped Kenyan identity, and social discourse ...

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...

Today in Music History for Feb. 14: ...

As Norway gets set to select its next Eurovision entry, here's all you need to know to follow along with 'Melodi Grand Prix'.

Before 1956 almost every major school in Jaffna had Sinhala teachers (many of them Buddhist priests) to teach The lyrics of the tamil version of the national anthem, namely ‘Sri Lanka Thaayae ...

Over 3000 Afrikaners belted out 'Die Stem' outside the US Embassy to South Africa after thanking President Donald Trump for ...

Singing the old South African national anthem, Die Stem, Willem Petzer, who appeared to be the convener of those present, handed a 26-page memorandum which outlined the history of the ...

Singing the old South African national anthem, Die Stem, the Afrikaners handed a memorandum of farm murders as well as all racial laws against white South Africans to the US Embassy in Pretoria.

Nonetheless, it's also a public platform, demonstrated by the performer of choice for the national anthem: Dennis R. Rodriguez. Subscribe to the Whiteboard, FanSided’s daily email newsletter on ...