Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As marchers took to the streets of Boston in late April to demand justice for Freddie Gray, some of them began to sing: “We shall ...

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The fate of the iconic song is sealed after a ruling in September and aborts the need for a trial next month. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Writer Kario Salem is negotiating to pen ...

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Self-doubt destroys focus and productivity, stifles creativity, holds you back from setting audacious goals, and feels downright terrible. Self-doubt is like an invasive vine: It creeps in subtly and, ...

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Folk singer Guy Carawan didn’t write “We Shall Overcome,” the galvanizing anthem of the civil-rights movement that the Library of Congress called “the most powerful song of the 20th century.” In fact, ...

Procrastination is the absence of progress. We all make resolutions, but only 8 percent succeed. The rest will get caught in the gap between intention and action — they fail to launch. Procrastination ...

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, win for the two ...