The two sides in a legal dispute over whether the song “We Shall Overcome” was subject to copyright protection reached a settlement Friday that put the civil rights anthem in the public domain, ...

*Having successfully beaten Warner/Chappell in its effort to claim the copyright on “Happy Birthday to You,” attorneys at Wolf Haldenstein have now turned their attention toward another popular song ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, left, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands at Leighton Plaza on Tuesday, June 18, ...

Music evokes history. Songs remind us of a time, a place, a moment. Songs like Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” can take us back to the dark days of segregation, and “We Shall Overcome” recalls Dr.

*Guy Carawan, a folk singer and social-justice advocate credited with turning the African-American spiritual “We Shall Overcome” into a unifying anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement, has died at ...

FRANKFORT — Chants of "we shall overcome" and "no justice, no peace" coming from Capital Avenue could be heard loud and clear Tuesday morning. The words came from hundreds of people who marched to the ...