This week on UpFront Soul, Aaron Myers tells us "Black Lives Matter," we'll hear the words of Civil Rights icon Ella Baker as interpreted by Sweet Honey in the Rock, and Syl Johnson asks, "Is It Because I'm Black?"
UpFront Soul Playlist #2016.29 Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" from "Back to the Night" on A&M Aaron Myers featuring Pacman Slim "Black Lives Matter" from "The Lion's Den" Stokely Carmichael "So Much Strength" from "Black Power: Music of a Revolution" on Shout Factory Yusef Lateef "Russell and Eliot" from "Yusef Lateef's Detroit" Gregory Porter & Opolopo "1960 What? (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub)" from "1960 What? The Remixes" Sweet Honey In the Rock "Ella's Song" from "Breaths" on Flying Fish Curtis Mayfield "Think" from "Superfly" on Curtom Sam Cooke "A Change Is Gonna Come" from "Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964" Joy Oladokun "Charleston" from "Carry" Ben Branch & the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra "Nobody Knows" from "On the Case" Jerry Lawson "Peace Like a River" from "Just a Mortal Man" on Red Beet Records Syl Johnson "Is It Because I'm Black?" from "The Complete Twinight Singles" on Numero Miles Davis "Summer Night" from "Quiet Nights" The Seven Brothers "Crying in the Streets" from "Crying in the Street" Hour 2 Soul Rebels "Culture in the Ghetto" from "Let Your Mind Be Free" Willie Bobo "Snort Of Green" from "Hell Of An Act To Follow" Nina Simone "Revolution" from "To Love Somebody" on RCA The Elcados "Ku Mi Da Hankan [Hausa]" from "Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970's Nigeria" The Budos Band "Budos Rising" from "Daptone Gold" on Daptone James Brown "Super Bad" from "20 All Time Greatest Hits!" on Polydor Carolyn Crawford "Good and Plenty" from "Conquer the World" Wendell Harrison "Farewell to the Welfare (Pt. 1)" from "Searching for Soul" Margie Alexander "It Can't Last Forever" from "I'm a Good Woman Vol. 3" on Harmless Fela Kuti "Black Man's Cry" from "Live with Ginger Baker" Sam Cooke "Havin' a Party" from "Live at the Harlem Square Club" on RCA