Racism and Slavery in the USA

691 songs in this group

10,000 Maniacs

I'm Not the Man

99 Posse

A Tribe Called Quest

The Space Program

We the People....

Mark Abel

Africa Unite

Forty-one Bullets

Raff Agosti

Airesis

Aldo e i Falisci

Le rondini bianche

Algiers

Lewis Allan

The House I Live in (a Parody)

Almanac Singers

I'm on My Way
Jim Crow

Maya Angelou

Anonymous

'Cause I'm a Nigger
A Song for Freedom

All the Pretty Little Horses (Hush-a-Bye)

Am I not a Man and Brother?

Antislavery Hymn
At the Welcome Table

Been in the Storm So Long

Certainly, Lord!

Come Join the Abolitionists

Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta

Discriminación a un mártir

Everybody Wants Freedom

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Hammer Man
I Ain't a-Scared of Your Jail

I Am Sold and Going to Georgia
I Want to Go Home
In Atlanta, Georgia

John Brown's Body

Marching 'Round Selma
Mr.Tyree

My Father, How Long ?

Nat Turner / The Gainin' Ground / Virginia 1831

Negro Got No Justice

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

Pick a Bale of Cotton

Remember Virden!

Roll, Jordan, Roll

Rosie

Run, Nigger, Run

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Song of the Coffle Gang

Song of the Free
The Flying Slave
The Slave Auction — A Fact
The Wayfaring Stranger [Libby Prison Hymn]

There Ain’t No Heaven

We Shall Not Be Moved

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

What Mean Ye?
Ye Heralds of Freedom
You'd Better Leave Segregation Alone

Anti-Flag

Ricardo Arjona

Louis Armstrong

(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue‎

Arrested Development

Gerardo Attanasio

Kumbaya, my love

Baby Huey & The Babysitters

Joan Baez

My Lord What a Morning

We Want Our Freedom Now

[Ain't Gonna Let Nobody] Turn Me Around

Beatles

Dan Bern

Martin Luther King

Chuck Berry

Beyoncé

Ameriican Requiem

Wolf Biermann

Die Ballade von dem Briefträger William L. Moore aus Baltimore, der im Jahre 63 allein in die Südstaaten wanderte. Er protestierte gegen die Verfolgung der Neger. Er wurde erschossen nach einer Woche. Drei Kugeln trafen seine Stirn.

Bikini Kill

Black Country Communion

The Ballad of John Henry

Rubén Blades

Nación rica, nación pobre

Art Blakey

The Freedom Rider

Blood Orange

Do You See My Skin Through the Flames?

The Blue Ribbon Tea Company

Body Count

No Lives Matter

Bon Jovi

American Reckoning

Boney M.

Paul Brady

Nothing but the Same Old Story

Braham

The Sweets of Liberty

Drew Brody

The Ballad of Mildred Loving (Loving in Virginia)

Big Bill Broonzy

Black, Brown and White

Brother D

How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise

Chris Brown

Elaine Brown

The End of Silence

James Brown

Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud

Oscar Brown, Jr

Brother, Where Are You?

The Lone Ranger

Keedron Bryant

I Just Wanna Live

Joe Budden

Freedom (Freestyle)

Eric Burdon & War

They Can't Take Away Our Music

Tré Burt

Under the Devil's Knee

Tommy Butler

Calle 13

Cannon's Jug Stompers

Alberto Cantone

Canzoniere Internazionale

Canzone per Angela Davis

Caravane De Ville

Guy Carawan

Ballad of the Student Sit-Ins

James Carr

Clarence Carter

Alessandro Casappa

Chad Mitchell Trio

Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood Ku-Klux-Klan

Len Chandler

Do What the Spirits Say Do

Murder on the Roads of Alabama

We Will Not Bow Down to Genocide

Tracy Chapman

Across The Lines

Ray Charles

Georgia on My Mind

Checkmates, Ltd.

Cher

Cherry Poppin' Daddies

The Chi-Lites

(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People

Marco Chiavistrelli

Ballad for Mike Brown

Chicago Movement

Never Too Much Love

Childish Gambino

This Is America

Chumbawamba

Waiting For The Bus to Take Me Home

The Clash

Cletus Got Shot

Jimmy Cliff

Coldplay

Trouble in Town

Judy Collins

Hey, Nelly Nelly

Medgar Evers Lullaby

John Coltrane

Bakai

Song of the Underground Railroad

Common

(I Have) a Dream

Black America Again

Letter to the Free

Fabio Concato

Sam Cooke

A Change Is Gonna Come

This Little Light of Mine

Shemekia Copeland

Clotilda's on Fire

Too Far to Be Gone

CORE Freedom Singers

Get Your Rights Jack

Chris Cornell

Elvis Costello

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten

D'Angelo

Bernard Binlin Dadié

Bee ya ma yee ah, Afrika !

Dälek

Who Medgar Evers Was...

Barbara Dane

Lonesome Jailhouse Blues

Bobby Darin

Long Line Rider

Darondo

Let My People Go

Cow Cow Davenport

Fabrizio De André

Vinícius de Moraes

Blues para Emmett

Ivan Della Mea

Quando il fronte era fronte

Luca Di Maio

Ginevra Di Marco

Ani DiFranco

Fuel

Jamie-Lee Dimes

Doc Watson

Swamp Dogg

I Was Born Blue

Maria Dunn

Champion Jack Dupree

Death Of Martin Luther King

Giustino Durano

Bob Dylan

Black Cross (Hezekiah Jones)

Blind Willie McTell

Only A Pawn In Their Game

The Death Of Emmett Till

The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

Train A-Travelin'

When The Ship Comes In

Who Killed Davey Moore?

Joseph Eastburn Winner

The Contraband's Song of Freedom

Marilyn Eisenberg

Freedom Freedom Rider

Duke Ellington

James A. Emanuel

The Middle Passage Blues

Epoque

Eurogliders

The City of Soul

GLI EXTRA DELLE CCG / AWS EXTRAS / LES EXTRAS DES CCG

Bill Withers: Harlem

Bruce Springsteen: Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

Fantastic Negrito

Man With No Name

Richard Fariña

Birmingham Sunday

Michael, Andrew and James

Fashawn

Mother Amerikkka

Bob A. Feldman

Greensboro Massacre

Fields Ward & His Buck Mountain Band

Cruel Slavery Days

Fishbone

Estranged Fruit

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Wade in De Water‎

Roberta Flack

Flobots

Aretha Franklin

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Same as It Ever Was (Start Today)

Bill Frederick

Burn, Baby, Burn

The Fugees

Rino Gaetano

Spiritual per Martin Luther King

The Game

Melody Gardot

George Perkins & The Silver Stars

Cryin' In The Streets

George Gershwin

Rhiannon Giddens

At the Purchaser's Option

Better Get It Right the First Time

Julie

Lonnie Glass

Notes From Underground

The Ballad of Nat Turner

Tom Glazer

The Ballad Of Momma Rosa Parks

Andy Glockenspiel

Deborah Anne Goss

Fling out the Anti-Slavery Flag

Rescue the Slave

Addie Graham

We're Stole and Sold From Africa

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

William Grant Still

Afro-American Symphony

Matteo Greco

Mi chiamo George

Grant Green

The Selma March

Gene Greenblath

Talking Ole Miss

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Contraband of Port-Royal

Nanci Griffith

The Loving Kind

Guitar Nubbit

Georgia Chain Gang

Woody Guthrie

Don’t Kill My Baby and My Son

Hangknot, Slipknot

My Thirty Thousand

H.E.R.

I Can’t Breathe

Merle Haggard

Johnny Hallyday

Dans la peau de Mike Brown

Fannie Lou Hamer

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Anthony Hamilton

Benjamin Hanby

Ole Shady (or the Song of the Contraband)

The Harlem Children’s Chorus

Black Christmas

Ben Harper

Call It What It Is

Like a King / I'll Rise

We Need to Talk About It

Emmylou Harris

My Name Is Emmett Till

George Harrison

Isn't It a Pity

Donny Hathaway

Someday We'll All Be Free

Haviah Mighty

Robert Hayden

The Ballad of Nat Turner

Jimi Hendrix

How Would You Feel?‎

The Highwomen

Lauryn Hill

Will Hoge

The Ballad of Trayvon Martin

Billie Holiday

John Lee Hooker

Lena Horne

Bruce Hornsby

Son House

Mississippi County Farm Blues

Brittany Howard

Ali Hughes

The Death of Bessie Smith

Langston Hughes

A Dream Deferred

Alabama Earth (at Booker T. Washington’s Grave)‎

Daybreak in Alabama

Negro

Song for a Dark Girl

The Money Mississippi Blues
The Negro Speaks of Rivers

The Underground

The Weary Blues

Three Songs About Lynching
Words Like Freedom

The Human Condition

Clifford Glover

Hurray For The Riff Raff

The Body Electric

The Hutchinson Family Singers

Slavery Is a Hard Foe to Battle

Janis Ian

Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)

Ice Cube

When Will They Shoot?

Kamal Imani

No More Innocent People Dying

Immortal Technique

The Other White Meat

The Impressions

Choice of Colors

Keep on Pushing

Mighty Mighty (Spade and Whitey)‎

People Get Ready

This Is My Country

Iron&Wine

Free Until They Cut Me Down

The Isley Brothers

J. Cole

J. Hutchinson Jr.

There's a Good Time Coming

Michael Jackson

They Don't Care About Us

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

The Race Riot Suite

James Butch Cage

Kill That Nigger Dead

Jay-Z

The Story of O.J.

Wyclef Jean

Justice (if You're 17)

Garland Jeffreys

Don't Call Me Buckwheat

The Jimmy Castor Bunch

It's Just Begun

Robert Johnson

Hell Hound on My Trail

Syl Johnson

Is It Because I'm Black?‎

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I’m Going to Get My Baby Out of Jail

Bessie Jones

Grace Jones

Slave to the Rhythm

Maggie Jones

Northbound Blues

Durand Jones & The Indications

Morning in America

Camélia Jordana

Judy & Danny Rose-Redwood

La Lucha Continuará

Kaia Kater

James Keelaghan

Alicia Keys

Elaine Brown (Interlude)

Queen of the Field (Patsey's Song)

Chaka Khan

Albert King

Cadillac Assembly Line

B.B. King

Why I Sing the Blues

Martin Luther King

Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick

Ballad of Paul Robeson

Ballad of Sojourner Truth

Ballad of the Deacons

Walter Kittredge

The War Will Soon Be Over

Michael Kiwanuka

Aaron Kramer

Blues for Emmett Till

Lenny Kravitz

Black and White America

KRS-One

Sound of Da Police

Talib Kweli

Peter La Farge

I’m an Indian, I’m an Alien

Johnny Half-Breed

Lady Gaga

Kendrick Lamar

Fuck Your Ethnicity

Latin Quarter

Freight Elevator

Swimming Against The Stream

Lead Belly

Bourgeois Blues

Michael B. Leavitt

The Southern Contraband

John Legend

Woke Up This Morning

Kristin Lems

John Lennon

J.B. Lenoir

Down in Mississippi

Everybody Cryin' About Vietnam

Shot on James Meredith

Julius Lester

See How the Rain Falls

Jenifer Lewis

Take Your Knee Off My Neck

Sergio Liberovici

La ballata del now

Gordon Lightfoot

Black Day In July

Sam Lightnin' Hopkins

I Asked the Bossman

Tom Moore’s Farm

Linqua Franqa

Living Colour

Open Letter (to a Landlord)

Pride

Someone Like You

William Lloyd Garrison

Song Of The Abolitionist

Manos Loïzos / Μάνος Λοΐζος

Στον πόλεμο ο Τζο

Τα νέγρικα

Ω γέρο νέγρο Τζιμ

Lord Invader

God Made Us All (Ode to the Negro Race)

John D. Loudermilk

Demi Lovato

Commander in Chief

Jez Lowe

Jesse Owens’ Shoes

The Lumpen

Linda Lyndell

Ewan MacColl

Tall and Proud
The Ballad of Jimmy Wilson

Machine Head

Stop the Bleeding

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

White Privilege II

Madball

Back Of The Bus

Miriam Makeba

Manic Street Preachers

Let Robeson Sing

Giovanna Marini

Il peggiore nemico del negro

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Richard Marot

Is There Any Free Place?
Oh, Martin!
The Law of the Skin
Waltz for Emmett Till

Ernie Marrs

Plain Bill Brown

Wynton Marsalis

From the Plantation to the Penitentiary

Martha and the Vandellas

Dancing in the Street

Hélène Martin

La ballade de Bessie Smith

Terrace Martin

Cal Massey

Cry of My People

The Black Liberation Movement Suite

Matthew Mayfield

Bill McAdoo

Ballad of Sam Mabrey

Walk on Alabama

You Can't Let Little Children Starve to Death

Tommy McClennan

Bottle It Up and Go

Eugene McDaniels

Love Letter to America

Andrew McKnight

Sam Melville

Coming Together

Memphis Slim

Vic Mensa

Miguel

Killer Mike

Pablo Milanés

Canción para Angela Davis

Little Milton

We're Gonna Make It

Charles Mingus

Original Faubus Fables

Blue Mitchell

Janelle Monáe

Hell You Talmbout

Victoria Monét

Little Brother Montgomery

The First Time I Met You

Dominique Moore

Tom Morello

Rabbit's Revenge

Maren Morris

Better Than We Found It

Phil Morrison

Xerardo Moscoso

Zoe Mulford

The President Sang Amazing Grace

Major Myjah

I Can't Breathe

N.W.A.

Fuck tha Police

Nationalteatern

Mr. John Carlos

Meshell Ndegeocello

The Price of the Ticket

Holly Near

Charles Neblett

If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus

Neville Brothers

New Model Army

Another Imperial Day

Randy Newman

Underneath the Harlem Moon

NH3

The Nightwatchman

Marching on Ferguson

Yannick Noah

Noname

Phil Ochs

Ballad Of Oxford, Mississippi (Jimmy Meredith)

Days Of Decision

Goin' Down to Mississippi

Here's To The State Of Mississippi

Talking Birmingham Jam

Too Many Martyrs (Ballad Of Medgar Evers)

Odetta

Ora Sesta

Omaggio a Meredith

Our Native Daughters

Mama’s Cryin’ Long

Quasheba, Quasheba

OutKast

P-Dash

Amanda Palmer

Parliament

Alun Parry

Ellis Paul

Tom Paxton

Vinnie Paz

You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Pearl Jam

Oscar Peterson

Hymn to Freedom

Shawn Phillips

Theme From the March on Washington

John Pierpont

Oft, In The Chilly Night

The Slave-Holder's Address To The North Star

Pink

Placebo

Plies

Elvis Presley

Walk a Mile in My Shoes

Prince

Propagandhi

The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist

Public Enemy

By the Time I Get to Arizona

No Sympathy From The Devil

State of the Union (STFU)

Quartetto Cetra

R.J. Phillips Band

Radici nel Cemento

Rage Against The Machine

Killing In The Name

Take the Power Back

Raised Voices

Dudley Randall

Roses and Revolutions

The Ballad of Birmingham

Rapsody

Raushan

Reef The Lost Cauze

Steve Reich

Priscilla Renea

Land of the Free

Rev. Robert B. Jones Sr.

The Darkness of Blackness

Malvina Reynolds

Ain't That Fine
God Bless the Grass

The Tour of the Irish Fusiliers
What's Goin' on Down There

Marc Ribot

Max Roach

Paul Robeson

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?

Ol’ Man River

Scandalize My Name

Smokey Robinson

Just My Soul Responding

Robin Rogers

Color Blind Angel

Rolling Stones

Sweet Black Angel

Anne Romaine

The Backstreets of Downtown Augusta

Marisa Ronstadt

Rootwords

Diana Ross

A Brand New Day

Rick Ross

David Roth

That Kind of Grace

David Rovics

As I Watch Minneapolis Burn

Elijah Played the Violin

I Can't Breathe

Say Their Names

Today in Charlottesville

Ursula Rucker

Run The Jewels

Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck)

Early

JU$T

Walking in the Snow

Run-D.M.C.

Proud to Be Black

Allison Russell

Tim Ryan

Ballad of Birmingham

Pantera Saint-Montaigne

Hasan Salaam

Bobby Sands

Sault

Don’t Shoot Guns Down

This Generation

Anton Virgilio Savona

Morte sul selciato

Jill Scott

National Anthem 2023

Gil Scott-Heron

Did You Hear What They Said?

Evolution (and Flashback)

José Campos Torres‎

Shah Mot (the Shah Is Dead / Checkmate)

The Train From Washington

‎95 South (All of the Places We've Been)‎

Maria Sebastian

Red (for Malcolm X)

Pete Seeger

Hold on (Keep Your Hand on the Plow)

If I Had A Hammer

Oh Mary, Don't You Weep

Roll the Union On

State of Arkansas (My Name Is Terry Roberts)

The Peekskill Story (Parts 1 & 2)‎

The Story of Old Monroe

There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land

Those Three Are On My Mind

We Shall Overcome

Pierre Selos

Martin Luther King

Serious Bizness

How Many More?
Old Glory's Story

Stolen Dreams (a Ballad for Michael Stewart)

Marlena Shaw

Woman Of The Ghetto

Archie Shepp

Charles Sherrod

Nothing but a Soldier

Showmen 2

Abbasso lo zio Tom

Pink Siifu

Nina Simone

(To Be) Young, Gifted and Black

Ain't Got No / I Got Life‎

Images

Mississippi Goddam

The Backlash Blues

Sir Lancelot

Sly and the Family Stone

Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey

Everyday People

Algee Smith

Bessie Smith

Blue Spirit Blues

Patti Smith

Strange Messengers

Smokey and the Mirror

The SNCC Freedom Singers

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Governor Wallace

In the Mississippi River

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Solange

Francesca Solleville

Ballade de Muhammad Ali
Complainte pour Angela Davis

Trey Songz

2020 Riots: How Many Times

Esperanza Spalding

Otis Spann

Blues for Martin Luther King

Bruce Springsteen

The Staple Singers

Freedom Highway

Long Walk to D.C.

When Will We Be Paid (For the Work We’ve Done)?

Why? (Am I Treated So Bad)

Mavis Staples

We’ll Never Turn Back

Steel Pulse

Stiff Little Fingers

Half A Life Away

Stone Roses

Donna Summer

Let's Work Together Now

Moses Sumney

Charyn Sutton

Sweet Honey in the Rock

Are We a Nation?

Swizz Beatz

Les Tabanards

Miner la police

Otis Taylor

Saint Martha Blues

Ten Million Slaves

Joe Tex

I Believe I'm Gonna Make It

Th1rt3en

The Last Poets

Niggers Are Scared of Revolution

Wake Up Niggers

The Persuasions

Buffalo Soldier

Richard W. Thomas

Andrew Tibbs

Tip & Tinker

Boy

Tj DJ

Armstrong sulla luna

Mary Travers

Conscientious Objector (I Shall Die)

U2

Angel of Harlem

Uncle Murda

Up With People

What Color Is God's Skin

Andrés Useche

Marching into the Light

Usher

Marco Valdo M.I.

Noir et Blanc (version noire)

Vento dall'Est

Adia Victoria

South Gotta Change

War on Women

Frank Wardlaw

Ethel Waters

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Slave Auction

Wegrowbeards

James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Don West

Ballad of Hattie Carroll

Hedy West

There’s Anger in the Land

Bukka White

Parchman Farm Blues

Josh White

(I’m Marching Down) Freedom Road

Chain Gang Boun’

Defense Factory Blues

Nine Foot Shovel

Southern Exposure

The Free and Equal Blues

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself (Section 10)

Randall Wilbur

John Williams

The Town Burns / Look Down, Lord

Lucinda Williams

Sonny Boy Williamson I

Welfare Store Blues

Willie D

Stevie Wonder

Living For The City

Jamila Woods

Henry Clay Work

Babylon Is Fallen!

Wu-Tang Clan

A Better Tomorrow

X

YG

Police Get Away Wit Murder

Neil Young

Alvin Youngblood Hart

Z-Ro

No Justice No Peace

John L. Zieber

The Old Contraband

Roy Zimmerman

Summer of Loving

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