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We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence

Lil Baby performs during a Juneteenth voter registration rally on June 19, 2020 at Murphy Park Fairgrounds in Atlanta, Ga. One week earlier, he released "The Bigger Picture," a song protesting police brutality. Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption

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America Reckons With Racial Injustice

We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence

These songs take on some of the ugliest stories in our history and reflect the commitment of Black musicians to telling the truth of how Black people have been wronged, and survived, and fought back.

'Songs Of Our Native Daughters' Lays Out A Crucial, Updated Framework for Americana

Our Native Daughters' Songs Of Our Native Daughters comes out Feb. 22 via Smithsonian Folkways. Terri Fensel/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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'Songs Of Our Native Daughters' Lays Out A Crucial, Updated Framework for Americana

Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla form a banjo-wielding supergroup dedicated to the history of both string-band music and black women in America.

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