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“There is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave …” W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903. Though he recognized their revolutionary undercurrent, DuBois (1868-1963), the brilliant, still influential Black sociologist, poignantly called American spirituals the “Sorrow Songs.”
The word “freedom” has become fraught with politics in the 21st century. Can one exercise one’s freedom without compromising the freedoms of other? Do one person’s rights trump those of