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STAY WOKE: Vital Lessons From Black Musical History (w/ Samuel James)

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The Disadvantages of Music in the United States

The first newspaper gets published in 1690, and for the next 175 years, there's a sort of training that happens. "Black people are property in this country," he says. The tradition, how our information gets passed is through song, right? Like this for a little song with the lead belly song: That's how we've always done it."

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