Love is Black
\nit is freedom rides
\nmarches on Washington
\nand Black Lives Matter protests
\nand I am a man picket signs<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nit is historical
\nit is music
\nit is books
\nit is lifelong learning<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nIt’s Mamie and Emmett Till
\nMerlie and Medgar Evers
\nMalcolm X & Betty Shabazz
\nMartin & Coretta King
\nBarack & Michelle Obama<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nit’s Huey P Newton & Bobby Seale
\nElaine Brown & Assata Shakur
\nStokely Carmichael & Fred Hampton
\nAfeni & Tupac Shakur
\nPatrice Lumumba & Nelson Mandela<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nIt’s Richard Wright & Ralph Ellison
\nJames Baldwin & Langston Hughes
\nZora Neale Hurston & Alice Walker
\nToni Morrison & Maya Angelou
\nLove is Black
\nIt’s bell hooks & Audre Lorde
\nJune Jordan & Roxane Gaye
\nJesmyn Ward & Angela Davis
\nJacqueline Woodson & Amanda Gorman<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nIt’s Betty Davis & Donna Summer
\nLuther Vandross & Wilson Pickett
\nMarvin Gaye & Tami Terrell
\nBillie Holiday & Marian Anderson<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nour blood is soaked in southern lands and city streets
\nour bodies lie in waterways and oceans
\nwe were brought to this place, severed from our pasts, our people, our history
\nbut we reinvented ourselves, creating a culture from dust<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nwe fight for the freedoms of EVERYONE
\nwe carry democracy on our backs
\nwe are shunned, criticized, our culture worn like clothes
\nAND STILL we fight, for us, for you and for you too<\/p>\n
Love is Black
\nwith every protest we raise a mirror for America to see herself
\nwe have been fighting the longest war, the war for true freedom
\nthe war for a near perfect democracy
\nwe are the SOUL of America, and the soul is love and love is black<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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