![]() ![]() Cole’s controversial new “Snow on Tha Bluff” is one of ten tracks featured in this article. So I shelved several paragraphs intended to highlight the worldwide outpouring of support for the current movement to get right to the point of this article: to highlight ten songs (and their artists) who can tell the story of the black man’s plight in America as well as anyone can. It was going to reflect on George Floyd and the international wave of protests his merciless killing sparked more than three weeks ago and how I sensed that sweeping social change (finally) seemed imminent.īut with the country continuing to be in turmoil and the latest unjustified killing of a black man – 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks who was shot in the back in Atlanta – just days old, I’m reminded that change, if it happens, will continue to be glacially slow in coming. I initially wrote a really long intro to this piece. Like the late Nina Simone once famously said, “an artist’s duty is to reflect the times.”
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