Sounds of the Movement

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Black Luv N Rage creates revolutionary space for Black queer artists  In his book “My Bondage and My Freedom,” Frederick Douglass said, “To an ignorant observer, spirituals appeared to be simple hymns, retelling biblical stories and themes.

But the songs held deeper meaning for the people who sang them, acting as coded messages that passed along information about how one might escape and serving as much-needed reminders that freedom was possible.” As long as Black people have been in America, music has been important to us.

Music has always been more than a way to pass time, or a way to entertain. It has been a tool to gather our people, to conjure strength, to make a statement and express the passion we have for our people and the world around us and the grief of struggle when those things are put in jeopardy.

The bonding of music and strife has been consistent through all generations as the fight for justice has taken different forms, but we continue to pick up where those before us left off.