By the 1980s, her selection of songs “ranged from rock and roll to Beatles and Bee Gees tunes,” including her rendition of the song To Love Somebody.
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August 2, 2020
HARRY BELAFONTE
His many firsts in the overturning of numerous racial barriers in the world of culture in America are legend.
Listening Tree Narrative (LT)
August 2, 2020
I Have A Dream – Dr Martin Luther King Jnr.
I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
Encyclopaedia Africana M
August 2, 2020
March on Washington, 1963
He didn’t take a knee, he protested peacefully, but they killed him anyway.
B Encyclopaedia Africana
July 19, 2020
Birmingham Church Bombing
acts of racial terrorism, to destabilise the descendants of Africans and delegitimise their efforts to obtain equality.
Encyclopaedia Africana J
July 13, 2020
JIM CROW
This was intended to make life as difficult and insufferable for the former slaves as possible, for having the audacity to ask for, fight for and achieve, their own freedom.