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Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement
American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
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Odetta Holmes’ Album One Grain of Sand
The singular singer released her groundbreaking album in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington, and used her art and appearance as weapons in the Civil Rights struggle.
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A History of American Protest Music: Come By Here
How cultural appropriation and erasure turned an African American spiritual into a white campfire sing-along.
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Land Not Theirs
Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
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Hellhound on the Money Trail
Standard recording contracts screwed Bluesmen out of royalties in the early 1900s, and the system was no different when Columbia released “Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings in 1990.”
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Shelved: The Lady of Rage’s Eargasm
Rapper Robin Allen’s hit song bypassed the hip-hop boys club that held her debut solo album back.
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How One Alabama Sherriff Worked Openly to Oppress People of Color
Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.
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Oregon’s Racist Past
Starting in the mid-19th century, and extending through the mid-20th century, Oregon was arguably the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.
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Vacating Convictions from Crooked Chicago Cops
A group of Chicago cops spent years framing innocent men, but thanks to one determined woman, their convictions are finally getting overturned.