“Southern trees bear strange fruitBlood on the leaves and blood at the rootBlack bodies swinging in the southern breezeStrange fruit hanging from the poplar trees“ One of the most important songs ever composed and recorded, Abel Meeropol originally wrote “Strange Fruit” as a poem under the pseudonym Lewis Allan. He penned it in 1937 under the name “Bitter Fruit”, after […]
Learn more →As part of an online archival project a poll was posted to nominate artists, songs, and albums that have made considerable contributions to the historical development of protest music. Based on the results of that poll another poll was posted featuring the list of nominees. Based on the final results we now have the list of the inaugural inductees into […]
Learn more →Black Thought, the MC of The Roots, recently released the EP Stream of Thought Vol. 2, the follow-up to Vol. 1 released earlier in the year. Because many now associate Black Thought by his birth name Tariq Trotter, as part of the house band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, it is easy to lose sight of his influence as a socially […]
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