Who's Music City?

Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.

~W.E.B. Dubois

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Eric Dozier
We Shall Overcome: Birth of a World Anthem

The story of a song hardly ever travels a straight path.  It winds through time until it takes a place rooted firmly in the heart of humanity.  “We Shall Overcome” is no exception.  It first appeared as a protest song during a 1945–1946 labor strike of African American women workers...

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Eric Dozier