As America celebrates its 250th Anniversary, here are 250 proud protest songs that make the case for a better country.

Wondering when the next No Kings protest is in 2026? June 14 centers on a NYC concert and local watch‑party events, not a mapped‑out day of marches.

Outer Banks Voice On a hot and humid July 3 evening, several dozen people gathered on the shaded lawn beside the Kitty Hawk Unitarian Universalist Church to join Outer Banks ...

A Cincinnati-based folk duo, Stone & Snow, performed at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair. The band, known ...

Tom Waits and Massive Attack have released “Boots on the Ground,” a long-awaited landmark for both parties. The harrowing, sunken protest song is Waits’ first original song since 2011’s Bad As Me, and ...

The Springsteen Center's "Chimes of Freedom" exhibit highlights the power of song in American life from "Yankee Doodle" to ...

Canadian rock icon Bryan Adams released a new protest song titled 51st State on Canada Day, in what appears to be a pointed response to US President Donald Trump, even though the track never names him ...

A Fourth of July concert reworks American protest songs into one long argument about what freedom actually means. Guitarist Joel Harrison, a Guggenheim Fellow whose arrangements have earned him ...

In the Spring of 2025, Lucinda Williams was feeling the weight of America's political climate. She'd had enough. In the midst of working on a new album, she and her primary collaborators - her husband ...