Abba Hillel Silver (January 28, 1893 – November 28, 1963) was an American rabbi and Zionist leader. He was a key figure in ...

Discover the surprising origin of Stevie Wonder's 'Happy Birthday' and its role in the campaign to establish Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national ...

Tennessee's country music queen is celebrating a milestone birthday. Parton was born Jan. 19, 1946 in a one-room cabin in Sevierville, Tennessee, as the fourth of 12 children. Since starting her music ...

The Nazis adopted Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of corporate greed. And Putin uses Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony as a call to arms. That’s why I put them in my soundtrack to ...

Nicki Minaj celebrates another birthday as one of the few artists who managed to redraw the borders of modern hip-hop while building a persona that feels larger than the genre itself. Her rise was not ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — An elementary school teacher will remain in the classroom. The school district investigated her after she sang a birthday song to a student. Polk County Schools said they found no ...

A Florida teacher is under investigation for singing a version of "Happy Birthday" with racist undertones to a 6-year-old Black student. Comparing Black people to monkeys has a long, painful history ...

A mother is raising concerns after a teacher used the word ‘monkey’ while singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to her son. A mother is speaking out after a teacher used the word “monkey” in her 6-year-old son’s ...

Billy Ray Cyrus had an emotional reaction when daughter Miley Cyrus gifted him the song “Secrets” for his birthday. “My dad cried,” Miley, 32, recalled during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning ...

A Florida mother is demanding an apology from her son's elementary school after she says the teacher's approach to celebrating her son's birthday was "offensive" and racist. The incident happened at a ...

An outraged Florida mom accused her son’s white elementary school teacher of racism after the educator sang the black child an alternate version of the “Happy Birthday” song that includes the word ...

From burning teenagers alive to fighting school integration, Polk County has long failed to protect Black children. A six-year-old mocked in class proves how that legacy still lingers. My son and his ...