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 ...

*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 ...

Social activism never sounded so good. Guy and Candie Carawan, two internationally-known musicians and social activists, performed ?We Shall Overcome: The Sound of Social Activism? yesterday. The ...

(Reuters) - Guy Carawan, whose rendition of the song "We Shall Overcome" became an anthem of the U.S. civil rights movement, has died at his home in Tennessee, The New York Times reported. He was 87.