Legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie is best known for his anthem “This Land Is Your Land,” which can come off as an innocuous ode to America if you aren’t listening closely. But the singer-songwriter was a lifelong socialist.
A sampling of the vast repertoire that Black folk musicians have contributed to the folk genre and the struggle for freedom and justice. Leon Bibb, Harry Belafonte, Paul Robeson, Odetta, Eric Bibb, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon, to start..
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Studs Terkel does the introduction to the beloved Woody Guthrie song, sung by Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman and Arlo Guthrie in this 1976 broadcast from PBS studio in Chicago. Full appreciation of the radical life of Pete Seeger here.
Pete Seeger would have turned 100 today. Few figures in American history have lived as influential and deeply radical lives as he did. Let's celebrate him today.
"Charlie on the MTA". They wrote it for a progressive candidate named Walter A. O’Brien, who opposed the latest fare increase.
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