Music
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"Be my woman, girl, and I'll be your man"
song "Hey Mama" by David Guetta (2014)
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"Rosie"
field recording of work song sung by men imprisoned at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman (1947)
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"A raisin in the sun"
play by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)
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"Harlem (2)"
poem by Langston Hughes (1951)
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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
album by Lauryn Hill (1998)
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The Miseducation of the Negro
book by Dr. Carter G. Woodson
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"I know why the caged bird sings"
autobiographical novel by Maya Angelou (1969)
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"Sympathy"
poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1899)
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"To be young, gifted, and black"
song by Nina Simone (Summer 1969)
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To be Young, Gifted, and Black: a portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in her own words
posthumous autobiographical compilation adapted by Robert Nemiroff (January 1969)
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"This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
Address at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York."
The Tragedy of Richard III play by William Shakespeare (c. 1592-1594)
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"Lemonade"
video by Beyoncé (2016)
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Daughters of the Dust
film by Julie Dash (1991)