We've got a seven-song playlist this week celebrating civil rights. We still have a long way to go. Peace and blessings.
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SONG OF THE monDAY
The Staple Singers are a gospel and R&B group. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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SONG OF THE tuesDAY
The Times They Are A-Changin’ is a Bob Dylan song written as an anthem for change. It's been covered by Nina Simone, the Byrds, Phil Collins, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen.
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SONG OF THE wednesDAY
Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddam is about the murder of Medgar Evans in Mississippi and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama and performed in Greenwich Village and Carnegie Hall for mostly white audiences.
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SONG OF THE thursDAY
From the album, What's Going On, Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues makes you wanna holler and throw up both your hands even though the last minute of the original recording was cut off the single version so it could run under three minutes.
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SONG OF THE friDAY
Bob Marley wrote Get Up, Stand Up while touring Haiti. He was deeply moved by its poverty and the lives of Haitians. It was the last song Marley ever performed on stage, on 23 September 1980.
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SONG OF THE saturDAY
A Change Is Gonna Come isn't Sam Cooke's most popular song but it's become an anthem for civil rights. The song was inspired by personal events when he and his entourage were turned away from a whites only motel in Louisiana.
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SONG OF THE sunDAY
Originally by Donny Hathaway, Someday We'll All Free wasn't intended to be about civil rights, but after Spike Lee used Aretha Franklin's cover of the song in Malcolm X, many consider it an anthem for injustice.
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