The '80s weren't known for their political protest anthems, although, these three songs might change you mind.

“Chimes of Freedom,” found on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan, represented one more topical song for old time’s sake. In many ways, it was his most all-encompassing protest song of ...

Sam Cooke, a soul music icon who died 60 years ago this week ... the early 1960s,” Jeremy Helligar wrote. Bob Dylan’s protest song “Blowin’ in the Wind,” also helped inspire Cooke.

Yarrow's "The Great Mandala" was a protest song about a hunger strike against war, and his "Day is Done" was a battle cry ...

If you've ever been to a protest, you know there'll be singing ... A tribute to the hip hop trio themselves, the song could equally work for the Occupy Central movement, with its never-give ...