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 ...

It is not a marching song. It is not necessarily defiant. It is a promise: "We shall overcome someday. Deep in my heart, I do believe." It has been a civil rights song for 50 years now, heard not just ...

Bishop William Barber vowed to "overcome" the Trump administration in his Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in New York City.