This featured playlist helps to celebrate and inspire during Black History Month. It includes featured songs and speeches from; Wanda Sykes, Kendrick Lamar, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and Barack Obama. Jamila Woods, a Chicago based singer/songwriter, is the cover for this playlist.
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*Martin Luther King, Jr. - Final Speech (April 3, 1968)
Nina Simone - Revolution (Pts. 1 and 2)
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
James Brown - Say It Loud (I'm Black And I'm Proud - Pt. 1 & 2)
Sounds Of Blackness - Optimistic
Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer
Esperanza Spalding - Black Gold (feat. Algebra Blessett, Lionel Loueke)
D'Angelo - Africa
Solange - F.U.B.U. (feat. The-Dream, BJ The Chicago Kid)
Nina Simone - To Be Young, Gifted and Black (2005 Remix)
Mahalia Jackson - We Shall Overcome
Malcolm X - You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate That Tree
The Last Poets - When The Revolution Comes
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
David Ruffin - Put A Little Love In Your Heart
*The Temptations - When I Lay My Burdens Down (Live From "The Temptations Show"/1968) (feat. George Kirby)
*The Staple Singers - This Little Light Of Mine
Mos Def - UMI Says
Deniece Williams - Black Butterfly
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake up Everybody
Sly & The Family Stone - Everyday People (Single Version)
Parliament - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)
B.B. King - The Thrill Is Gone
Chuck Jackson - Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird)
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Redemption Song
The Staple Singers - When Will We Be Paid
Stevie Wonder - Visions
*Max Roach - Lonesome Lover (feat. Abbey Lincoln, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
Duke Ellington - In A Sentimental Mood (feat. John Coltrane)
Ray Barretto - Acid
Cal Tjader - Black Orchid (feat. Eddie Palmieri)
Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground
Mongo Santamaria - Afro Blue
*Sonia Sanchez - Blk/ Wooomen/ chant
*Hugh Masekela - Colonial Man
Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy (Edit)
Gregory Porter - 1960 What?
Kendrick Lamar - Alright
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
A Tribe Called Quest - We The People....
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