Mat Callahan is a musician and insurgent historian whose latest project is, “Songs of Slavery and Emancipation.” The book and double-album were released on June 17 by Jalopy Records in New York and a ...

Sci-fi thriller Slave (Abed) by Mansour Assad and Raven Song by Mohamed Al Salman took the top prizes at the ninth edition of the Saudi Film Festival, running from May 4 to 12 in the city of Dammam in ...

*OUR ROOTS Black History Month spotlight The Fisk Jubilee Singers – They introduced Slave songs to the world.

“That’s not a word to play with these days.” If Pharrell Williams could do it all again, one of Britney Spears’ most iconic tunes would sound a little different. As one of the writers and producers ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An elementary school in New York decided to remove "Jingle Bells" from its curriculum because of concerns about the ...

MONTREAL — It was, the critics roared, an insulting and insensitive performance: White women playing black slaves picking cotton. When the show “Slav,” by acclaimed Quebec theater director Robert ...

Parents in South Carolina are outraged after an elementary school class took in a field trip in which students were instructed to pick cotton while singing "slave songs." Video obtained by Fox 46 ...