Mourners sing 'We Shall Overcome' outside the historic Emanuel AME Church(Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images) How did a simple hymn rise to become a world-wide civil rights anthem, described by the US ...

CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The undisputed anthem of the civil rights movement has its roots in the Queen City, though it took more than 50 years for the world to recognize it. “We Shall Overcome” is a ...

Sung by a crowd of 250,000 at the 1963 March on Washington, ‘We Shall Overcome” is considered by many activists and historians as the theme song of the Civil Rights Movement. The song has a deep ...

In 1962, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Cincinnati to speak at a banquet for friend and fellow civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth. Hotels were filled, so Shuttlesworth, the pastor of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A powerful moment was caught on camera at an upstate New York protest. Officer Armonde “Moe” Badger with the Buffalo Police Department led protesters in the hymn, “We Shall Overcome” ...

Civil rights activist, Louise Shropshire gets her just due decades later. For decades, activists have tried to get Louise Shropshire the credit she deserves for the famous civil rights song ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Echoes of the song “We Shall Overcome” reverberates through the nation at marches, around Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s birthday and during Black History Month. But the ...

A U.S. District Court ruled on September 8 that the first verse of the iconic song of the civil rights movement, “We Shall Overcome,” should be free of a copyright. I’m usually an advocate of freeing ...

While the wave of demonstrations sweeping the world in the wake of George Floyd’s murder will undoubtedly inspire a new generation of protest music, it has also led many to revisit older songs. Some ...