For many who grew up on “the Motown Sound,” there has always been an uneasy comfort about the world and the black American’s place in it. Distressed over the fight for civil rights, frustrated with the Vietnam War -- a conflict that many blacks saw as an unnecessary show of force that took attention away from domestic concerns -- and aggravated by
The Political Legacy Of Hip Hop That Once Was
For black music in America today, the audience has never been so large, but the political voice has never been so faint.