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Dave Okumu
Song of the Day: A powerful song inspired by the documentary about the January 1981 New Cross Fire in south London that claimed 13 Black young lives, with the title from a chant of anti-racism protests that followed
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Figure of Speech’s debut album
Song of the Day: Taken from the recent, excellent debut eponymous album, the Bristol-based Mancunian poet joins forces with producer Boca 45 on a 70s-style funk track delivering sharp hip-hop lyrics that have an anti-racist theme inspired by the George Floyd murder
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2020 sees the very welcome return of Stevie Wonder
Song of the Day: While both began as love songs, these first new numbers in four years by the soul great have a strong multi-layered political element, calling for solidarity in times of rising racism, an election and an epidemic
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The two Bobby’s of Bob Vylan
Song of the Day: Blisteringly brilliant, angry, scorching guitar punk hip-hop-grime number by the London duo focusing on the state of Britain, growing up mixed race in a racist, abrasive culture that is continually prevalent now for Black Lives Matter
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Ayoni
Song of the Day: Exquisite, soaring lead vocals and harmonies from the Barbadas-born, LA-based soulful singer-songwriter on this acoustic new track that captures the traumas and experience of being a black woman
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Run The Jewels: Killer Mike and El-P
Song of the Day: With the early launch fo of the hip hop duo of Killer Mike and El-P’s fourth album RTJ4, proceeds of which go towards legal support for activists for social change, the final heartfelt track about fear, violence and love
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Ranking Roger from The Beat, 1963-2019
Song of the Day: A short musical tribute after the sad loss of Ranking Roger, co-lead singer and MC with the Birmingham ska band that along with Specials became a cornerstone of British and Jamaican music at its best
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Alice Cooper waves the election banner
Song of the Day: In the wake of the most vital mid-term US elections in a generation, the 1972 rock song that is often wheeled out on these occasions, but less known is that it is a reworking of an earlier song, Reflected
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Dread rocker Lenny Kravitz
Song of the Day: After Arctic Monkeys taxi rank scenes in Sheffield night-life, a double header focusing on the drivers with a dismissive attitude and different attempts to hail them on either side of the pond
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Donald Trump is supported by far-right groups such as the KKK and neo-Nazis
Song of the Day: In a traumatic week in which racism appears to be endorsed by US president Donald Trump, let's cut through bigotry and hatred with a sharp 1990 song from the Massachusetts band
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A stirring moment in Casablanca …
Song of the Day: With the French presidential elections getting underway with a knife-edge result in prospect and much at stake, let's look at the four versions of the famously stirring national anthem
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Razzy Bailey, a soulful country singer
Song of the Day: On the eve of the French presidential elections, and a world divided by politics and racial tension, what better way to address this than by this supremely effective message from 1974
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Jane's Addiction
Song of the Day: Leaving yesterday's gentle song we take a different departure, with the LA punk-funk-rock-metal band's number about a family row over a mixed-race relationship
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