[Editor’s note: To mark the conclusion of Black History Month, we’ve invited BGS collaborator and contributor Brandi Waller-Pace to share her thoughts on how to take the ethos, mission, and action of BHM with us throughout the year.] “Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Black American writer and historian, is known as the Father of Black History…

It's hard to pick my favorite protest songs. The Woody, the Dylan, the '60s counterculture pop hits, the singularly chilling “Strange Fruit” -- I love them all. The original “This Land Is Your Land” is an anarchist hymn, Dylan’s “Masters of War” is as scathing and righteous today as it was then, “Ohio” by CSNY…

Many of the facets of the music industry are the way they are simply because they are the way they are, but there is one pillar of melodic and lyrical art-making that remains extraordinarily arbitrary. Time. Records are released on Fridays now. Except when they aren’t. Some release days are packed with albums and others…

“There's no such thing as someone else's war Your creature comforts aren't the only things worth fighting for Still breathing, it's not too late We're all carrying one big burden, sharing one fate.”                                            …

“The holiest place on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a current love.” -- A Course in Miracles “Resilient” was written after the election, during Standing Rock, and while on tour. It came out like a wild horse from our mouths, the kind of song that responds to the times itself before you…