Feb 20: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Yasiin Bey Aka Mos Def
Mavis Staples slowed it down to dramatic impact on a deeply soulful rendition she cut for 2007’s “We’ll By no means Turn Back,” a idea album of songs associated to the civil rights movement made by Ry Cooder. Like a lot of spirituals, its word are primarily based in scripture, in this case, the Book of Jeremiah. In 2017, students at Howard University, a historically Black university, sang “We Shall Not Be Moved” to protest former FBI director James Comey…