Oh, Freedom

...Harriet Beecher Stowe's fictitious character Uncle Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Oh Freedom" by Lucy Kinchen Chorale Oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me And before I'd be a slave I'll be buried in a my grave And go home to my Lord...

In this article: Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Odetta

...on "Eight Miles High", one of several Dylan songs he covered with the Byrds, his fingertips are a blur. An old slave song "Oh Freedom", most famously sung by Odetta on Martin Luther King's 1963 march on Washington, is swollen...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Greenwich Village, Carolyn Hester, I Ain't Got No Home Woody Guthrie, Rum, Tequila, and Credit crunch

...generation, inspiring musicians such as Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. She was always politically active, performing the slavery song Oh Freedom during the 1963 march on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr gave his historic "I Have a Dream"...

In this article: Odetta, Brian Wilson, Black Cab Sessions, California Girls, Fibrosis, That Lucky Old Sun, Bob Dylan, and Barack Obama

So I guess it was maybe a year ago when I was sitting in Heather Champ's living room in San Francisco, holding her Chihuahua Chieka, and talking about how people sometimes send me hate mail because they look at a picture of Chuck and think...

In this article: Rash, Tourettes, and San Francisco

09/21/2009 If Matt Latimer's new book had been released a few weeks ago, the Tea Party marchers would have hoisted him onto their shoulders and carried him -- laughing and cheering -- all the way up Capitol Hill. Laughing, because...

In this article: Matt Latimer, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Conservatism, Republican Party, Newt Gingrich, Ed Gillespie, Barack Obama, and Democracy

Posted July 29, 2009 at 1:42 p.m. Wow, there it was... Psalm 62: "How long will you assail a person, will you batter your victim, all of you, as you would a leaning wall, a tottering fence? Their only plan is to bring down a person of...

In this article: God and Delusion

Your momma said you ugly So I guess it was maybe a year ago when I was sitting in Heather Champ's living room in San Francisco, holding her Chihuahua Chieka, and talking about how people sometimes send me hate mail because they look at a...

In this article: Rash and Tourettes

Model Cabin at Mount Vernon Fulfills a Curiosity About the Toiling Hundreds Joann Bagnerise couldn't bring herself to visit George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, driving by without stopping, thinking too much about the hundreds of...

In this article: George Washington, Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, Wild Turkey, and This Little Light of Mine

...reminds us. Change a few words here and there and "I Shall Not Be Moved" becomes "We Shall Not Be Moved," or Harry Belafonte is singing "Oh Freedom." Artists like Butler, Gladys Knight and the late Ruth Brown recall how the singers...

In this article: People Get Ready, Sam Cooke, Curtis Mayfield, A Change Is Gonna Come, Mississippi Goddam, Harry Belafonte, Coretta Scott King, Nina Simone, and Gladys Knight

...works include Frederick Douglass (Dorothy Rudd Moore, 1985); Sojourner Truth (Valerie Capers, 1986); The Outcast (Noah Ain, 1990); Oh Freedom (Lena McLin and Benjamin Matthews, 1990); Journin' (Benjamin Matthews 1991); and The Meetin'...

In this article: Harriet Tubman, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moscow, Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, and Frederick Douglass