Todays is Juneteenth, the US Federal holiday that marks when the news of emancipation finally reached the last enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, on June 19th, 1865. It’s a day of remembrance, but ...
The year before he bade the world farewell, Robert Nesta Marley, best known as Bob Marley, gave humanity an anthem of freedom for all oppressed people. What has now been canonized as “redemption song” ...
And he gave away the songwriting credit to a local hero back home in Jamaica ...
Then there is No Woman, No Cry (1975) by Bob Marley and the Wailers, captured at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 17 July 1975 ...