Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...
Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Nina Simone … none of them could have dreamed of a stage like this. Rows of field laborers hacking at sugar cane with machetes. Workers in harnesses dangling from power poles as ...
On January 28th, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a protest song he’d written “in response to the state terror being visited on the ...
On Jan. 28, 2026, Bruce Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a hard-hitting protest against the immigration enforcement surge in the city, including the killings of Renee Good and Alex ...
“Which Side Are You On?” was composed in 1931, a woman’s spontaneous response to a coal company’s effort to prevent miners in Harlan County, Kentucky, from joining the United Mine Workers of America.