A local historian looks back at the songs by Black artists that made America"Without music the civil rights movement would have been a bird without wings." — John Lewis | Music News | Spokane | The Pacific Northwest Inlander : vimarsana.com

A local historian looks back at the songs by Black artists that made America"Without music the civil rights movement would have been a bird without wings." — John Lewis | Music News | Spokane | The Pacific Northwest Inlander

Morning trains disgorge their commuters into the city — white men in suits. Departing trains take Black souls to service white suburban privilege. At dusk...

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