Songs inspired by commemoration and celebration. R.I.P. Angela.
a Woman and a Sister, a Person ARCHIVES Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday No More Auction Block – Bob Dylan Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers Slave Driver – Bob Marley & The Wailers Slavery Days – Burning Spear Chains – Black & Blues When the Revolution Comes – The Last Poets John Brown’s Body – Paul Robeson Sanders of the River – Paul Robeson Go Down Moses – Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver Choir, The Allstars Wade in the Water – Ella Jenkins Wade in the Water – Ramsey Lewis Song of the Underground Railroad – John Coltrane Oh, Freedom – The Montgomery Gospel Trio When Will We Be Paid – The Staples Singers Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul? – Gil Scott-Heron Mississippi Goddamn- Nina Simone The Death of Emmett Till – Bob Dylan Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution – The Last Poets Fight the Power – Public Enemy This is America – Childish Gambino Home is Where the Hatred Is – Gil Scott-Heron Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye The Ghetto – Donny Hathaway Chocolate City – Parliament Say It Loud – I’m Black and Proud – James Brown Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones Slave – The Rolling Stones Give the People What They Want – The O’Jays We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue – Curtis Mayfield (For God’s Sake) Give More Power to The People – The Chi-Lites Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke People Get Ready – Aretha Franklin Freedom – Charles Mingus Summertime – Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
