It’s been said that music can change the world. Some might denounce that as exaggeration, but at minimum, music does have the power to stir emotions and bring attention to worthy causes. Over the ...

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From Depression-era ballads to civil rights anthems to hip-hop indictments, these songs turned melody into movement. Vote for the tracks that best fused artistry with activism. What counts: Ranked by ...

Fifty-six years ago today, a song with a powerful message hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on its way to a multi-week run at the top of the charts. Decades later, Edwin Starr's "War" had its legacy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sam Cooke's 1964 classic "A Change Is Gonna Come" became one of the most important protest songs in American music, but one of its ...

On a day in which Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello is calling for 10,000 guitarists to join him in New York City as part of Occupy Wall Street’s May Day demonstration, we offer the first ...

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Sam Cooke’s 1964 classic “A Change Is Gonna Come” became one of the most important protest songs in American music, but one of its biggest inspirations came from another singer-songwriter: Bob Dylan.