Lawson was an apostle of nonviolent protest — and close adviser to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights ...

His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...

Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...