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"Lyons delivers the history of a song that has inspired generations of African-Americans to persist and resist in the face of racism and systemic oppression

Our History Has Always Been Contraband Cover:Hardcover and Turning PointThe centuries long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. Were ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." Colin Kaepernick Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove