Dr. Mark Anthony Neal: The innovators who revolutionized Black music

As Blacks in 1960s America fought for equitable space in society, Black culture followed in kind—particularly Black music. Dr. Mark Anthony Neal is quoted in Fast Company stating: 

“When you look back at Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’ and Nina Simone’s ‘Mississippi Goddam,’ they took the hit for artists to have a freedom to sing [about] what they wanted to say in the 1970s,” says Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African-American studies at Duke University. “There’s no question about that.”

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