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Daily Dose of Protest: Little Bit – Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples 2017 album, If All I Was Was Black was one of the Top 25 Protest Albums of 2017. One of the album tracks, "Who Told You That" was…
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Daily Dose of Protest: Pay Gap – Margo Price
Margo Price's 2017 album All American Made was one of The Top 25 Protest Album of 2017. The title track of that album was also one of the Top 50…
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Daily Dose of Protest: Happy New Year (Prince Can’t Die Again) – Mac McCaughan
This little ditty was recorded towards the end of 2016 and the premise was fairly self-explanatory. Regardless of how bad things will get, on the bright side at least Prince…
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Daily Dose of Protest: This Ends Today – Garner Family
Anti-police brutality activist Erica Garner died of a heart attack on the morning of December 30, 2017 at the age of 27. Her tireless activism was motivated by personal tragedy.…
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Top 50 Protest Songs of 2017
French-Cuban duo Ibeyi, made up of twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz recorded one of the 50 best protest songs of 2017. Photo Credit: Maya Dagnino This is a continuation…
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Daily Dose of Protest: The Body Electric – Hurray For the Riff Raff
Hurray For the Riff Raff's 2017 album, Navigator was the number one album on the list of Top 25 Protest Albums of 2017. Today I decided to focus on a…
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Daily Dose of Protest: Today in Charlottesville – David Rovics
On December 20th, 2017, a street in Charlottesville, Virginia, was renamed after Heather Heyer. Heyer was killed on August 12th, 2017 when white supremacist, James Alex Fields Jr. drove into a group of…
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Daily Dose of Protest: Mr. President – LL Cool J (featuring Wyclef Jean)
On December 3, 2017 (televised on December 26), LL Cool J became the first rapper to be honored at the Kennedy Centers Honors. Even though he isn't necessary known as…
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Daily Dose of Protest: New World Order – Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield died on December 26, 1999. With The Impressions and his solo work, he established himself as one of the most influential artists in the history of socially conscious…
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Daily Dose of Protest: A Christmas Fucking Miracle – Run The Jewels
This is not your typical festive Christmas tune. Even though the video is somewhat comical, the lyrics are politically hard-hitting. The song addresses corruption, poverty and racism ("Still spell AmeriKKKa…