Lift Every Voice And Sing: Twenty Rousing #BlackLivesMatter Albums
July 23, 2020
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Jazz has been inextricably linked with social and political protest since at least the late 1930s, when Billie Holiday made famous the leftist songwriter and poet Abel Meeropol's "Strange Fruit." The song, which has a power to move that is undiminished by familiarity, likens the bodies of lynched African Americans to fruit hanging in trees... [ read more ]
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