BLACK SONGS MATTER #7. Continues tomorrow.

A Caffè Lattè tribute…

 

BLACK

SONGS

MATTER

Some remain iconic; some were a call to arms; while others imagined a world where prejudice and injustice ceased to exist. Here are 100 songs by black voices that are the soundtrack to the struggle that continues to this day for equality, respect and dignity. They serve to carry the message that Black Lives Matter. 

 

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MISSISSIPPI GODDAM

Nina Simone

When Nina Simone heard about the fatal shooting of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama that claimed the lives of 4 girls, her immediate reaction was to seek revenge. Her husband talked her out of it, suggesting she write a song about how she felt. “Mississippi Goddam” was Simone’s first civil rights composition and issued in 1964.