Songs of the Noir: Episode 1: Minstrelsy, Civil Rights, and the Music Behind the Movement‪.‬ Black Pitch

Hello and Welcome to Black Pitch, a podcast about music and pop culture. In this series, I will be exploring popular protest music by black artists from the Civil Rights Movement to the 1980s. In this episode, I focus on and dissect Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit', Nina Simone's 'Mississippi Goddam', and Sam Cooke's 'A Change is Gonna Come"

Recommended Reading:

https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/nyregion/malcolm-x-assassination-case-reopened.html

https://time.com/5778688/malcolm-x-assassination/

The Hunting of Billie Holiday - POLITICO Magazine