Credit is finally going where it’s due. The song “We Shall Overcome” has left an indelible mark on American culture. Part gospel hymn, part protest anthem of the civil rights movement ...

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 ...

A 13-year-old boy defies an abusive school principal in 1960s-set, social-issues drama "We Shall Overcome," the third ... obvious in its use of Jimi Hendrix posters to indicate time frame, but ...

The same law firm that recently succeeded in releasing "Happy Birthday" from copyright rules is now hoping to do the same for "We Shall Overcome." Filed Tuesday in New York federal court ...

A federal judge ruled (PDF) on Friday that the most famous verse of the civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" is not copyrighted. The ruling is a decisive, but still incomplete ...

The Cincinnati birth of the song is documented in a 2012 book called We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue, by Isaias Gamboa, a Grammy-award winning music producer. Gamboa spent ...

Set up as the unofficial anthem to the Civil Rights Movement and the “most powerful song of the 20th Century,” according to the Library of Congress, “We Shall Overcome” is said in the ...

Can anyone claim possession of “We Shall Overcome”? Is it property of the civil-rights movement? Does it belong to the union workers who first sang the song as we know it? Is it simply a piece ...