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Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu continues to explore the music generated by the Black Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s. From January 2012.

Singer and songwriter Erykah Badu presents a two-part series exploring the extraordinary underground music generated by the Black Power movement of the late Sixties and early Seventies: radical, beautiful and rare.

Contributors include: Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, founder of the Black Arts Movement Amiri Baraka, Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez, jazz flautist Lloyd McNeil, Abiodun Oyewole of the Last Poets, Gill Scott Heron's co-writer Brian Jackson, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli and former Black Panther leader and songwriter Elaine Brown.

Presenter: Erykah Badu

Producer: Simon Hollis
A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4.

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  • Thu 12 Jan 201211:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 21 Sep 201223:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Wed 10 Oct 201806:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Wed 10 Oct 201813:30
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  • Wed 10 Oct 201820:30
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  • Thu 11 Oct 201801:30
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