Audio Companion Contents (2 CDs)
- New selections are highlighted in bold
- DISC 1: MUSIC
- Maple Leaf Rag, Scott Joplin
- Maple Leaf Rag, Jelly Roll Morton
- Go Down, Moses, Paul Robeson
- Steal Away to Jesus, Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Been in the Storm So Long, Fisk Jubilee Singers
- Ezekiel Saw de Wheel, Tuskegee Choir
- This Little Light of Mine, Viola James & Congregation
- Soon I Will Be Done, Mahalia Jackson
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord, Clara Ward
- Rosie, Inmates of Parchman Farm
- You May Go But This Will Bring You Back, Zora Neale Hurston
- Good Morning Blues, Leadbelly
- C. C. Rider, Ma Rainey
- Sunnyland, Elmore James
- Backwater Blues, Bessie Smith
- Beale St. Blues, Big Maybelle
- Rock Me, Baby, Lightnin’ Hopkins
- My Handy Man, Alberta Hunter
- Trumpet Mouthpiece Blues, Clark Terry
- It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing), Duke Ellington
- (What Did I Do To be So) Black and Blue, Louis Armstrong
- Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday
- Parker’s Mood, King Pleasure
- Four Women, Nina Simone
- Dancin’ in the Street, Martha and the Vandellas
- A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
- DISC 2: SPOKEN WORD
- Atlanta Address [excerpt], Booker T. Washington
- Autobiography, W. E. B. DuBois
- If We Must Die, Claude McKay
- Strong Men, Sterling A. Brown
- The Creation, James Weldon Johnson
- The Way Out Is to Pray Out, Rev. G. I. Townsel
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes
- Heritage, Countee Cullen
- Elder Eatmore’s Sermon on Generosity, Bert Williams
- For My People, Margaret Walker
- Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden
- a song in the front yard, Gwendolyn Brooks
- We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks
- Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict, Sonia Sanchez
- Nikki-Rosa, Nikki Giovanni
- Wailers, Amiri Baraka
- How Long Has Trane Been Gone? Jayne Cortez
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane, Michael Harper
- From Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- Rita Dove introduces the Thomas and Beulah poems, the Event
- I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Ballot or the Bullet, Malcolm X
- The Message, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
- Selections are subject to change.
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