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Dec 4, 2020 · Songs of the Civil Rights Movement. Susan Fillippeli. 9 videos 407 views Last updated on Dec 4, 2020. This playlist contains songs that were important to the American Civil Rights...
- Arrested Development, 'Revolution'
- The Game, 'Don't Shoot'
- Marvin Gaye, 'Inner City Blues
- Nina Simone, 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black'
- The Staple Singers, 'I'll Take You There'
- Bob Marley, 'Redemption Song'
- The Roots, 'Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around'
- Kendrick Lamar, 'Alright'
- Stevie Wonder, 'Living For The City'
- Lauryn Hill, 'Black Rage'
These alternative hip-hop heavyweights recorded "Revolution" for use in the Spike Lee biopic on Malcolm X, who earns a shout-out here alongside Marcus Garvey and Harriet Tubman, among other social activists. The track begins with a spoken dedication to "all my ancestors who were raped, who were killed and hung because of their plight for freedom an...
In response to the fatal shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, of an unarmed Black man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer, the Game recruited an all-star cast of fellow rappers to join him in this poignant protest track. DJ Khaled sets the tone with a prayer for protection "as we keep our hands up high and scream for justice." And after a fiery fi...
"What's Going On" was perhaps the socially relevant album of its era, a soulful song cycle that finds the Motown star responding to a litany of social ills, from poverty to drug abuse, environment issues and the war in Vietnam. On "Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)," the singer speaks directly to the economic disparity experienced by those s...
Nina Simone has said she and her musical director Weldon Irvine hoped to write a song that would inspire young black children all over the world to feel good about themselves and celebrate their blackness. That's exactly what this song accomplishes, a joyous gospel tune that tells those children, "In the whole world you know there are a million boy...
This gospel-flavored funk jam finds the Staple Singers dreaming of a better place where "ain't nobody cryin', ain't nobody worried, ain't no smilin' faces lyin' to the races" with an oft-repeated chorus hook that promises to "take you there." There's really not much else to say, so they just ride the groove out, testifying their way to salvation, p...
The final track on the final album Bob Marley recorded before his death in 1981, this intimate solo acoustic recording begins with a reference to Africans being sold as slaves to merchant ships. The chorus asks the listener "Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?" And the second verse finds Marley referencing a speech by Marcus Garvey, urgi...
This organ-driven reinvention of the spiritual "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around" was the Roots' contribution to "Soundtrack For a Revolution," a 2012 compilation of contemporary artists doing traditional Civil Rights-era freedom songs (with an assist from Brooklyn art-rock legends TV on the Radio. The music video offsets black-and-white foota...
This highlight of "To Pimp a Butterfly" had emerged by the end of 2015 as what the New York Times declared "the unifying soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests nationwide." In that same article, Lamar told the Times he could see what the kids who were chanting his song in the streets were hearing. "Simple phrase," he said. "We gon' be alright. I...
Stevie Wonder won a Grammy for this gritty portrait of a boy who's "born in Hard Time, Mississippi, surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty." His parents do their best to keep him moving in the right direction while working hard to barely make a dollar. But the harsh realities of living for the city, where "to find a job is like a haystack ne...
Setting her words to the tune of "My Favorite Things" on an ominous bed of hip-hop beats and acoustic guitar, Lauryn Hill traces the roots of Black rage through American history to its tragic beginnings with "Black human packages tied up in strings." She also examines the ongoing sins of systemic oppression that continue to define the Black experie...
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Jun 18, 2021 · Songs For Freedom: A Juneteenth Playlist From Pianist Lara Downes. June 18, 20215:21 AM ET. Enlarge this image. YWCA camp for girls. Highland Beach, Maryland, 1930. These photos are from the...
Jun 11, 2020 · Listen to our civil rights and protest songs playlist on Spotify or Tidal. A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke.
Top 60 Songs For Civil Rights. Music to Life. 60 videos 141,645 views Last updated on Dec 10, 2022. Music to Life, music for social change, cause music, protest movement, protest...
Jan 18, 2010 · What follows are jazz and jazz/blues versions of some of the songs that sustained the civil-rights movement in the 1960s (and beyond) through the setbacks, the hardships, the failures and...
