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Taboo: "I just remember the day of 9/11, Will comes in running to the room and he says, 'Yo! We're being attacked."

"And then we saw the second plane and then reality sets in."

Will I Am: "My grandma said a prayer, and said that we shouldn't stay at home afraid when you're being called on to do as much healing as you can with the gift that was given to us."

Taboo: "There was a lot of separatism, racism, and we felt like the question we had been asking was like, 'Yo, where's the love?'"

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This is a quote by common talking about how Selma has affected him.

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This is a quote from part of the song same love by Macklemore

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Where is the love? By the Black Eyed Peas; 

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Where is the love? By the Black Eyed Peas; 

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This song is about the state of post 9/11 world, which all but calls for US withdrawal from Iraq. "I remember when the attack in Paris happened, people would say 'We need 'Where Is The Love?' again.' And then Belgium happened, and then Turkey, and then Orlando, and then Philando, and then Alton before him, and then Dallas," he said. "Everyone was calling on us, like, we need that song again."

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The Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love? (Official Music Video)

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"When I heard about the bombing of the church in which the four little black girls were killed in Alabama, I shut myself up in a room and that song happened. Medgar Evers had been recently slain in Mississippi. At first I tried to make myself a gun. I gathered some materials. I was going to take one of them out, and I didn't care who it was. Then Andy, my husband at the time, said to me, 'Nina, you can't kill anyone. You are a musician. Do what you do.' When I sat down the whole song happened. I never stopped writing until the thing was finished."

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When Pete Seeger played his updated version of "We Shall Overcome" to the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., he gave King's civil rights movement its anthem.

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"This is not only for paying honor to those who lived in these times during the '60s, but also really relevant to today," Common told Billboard magazine. "You can look at what's going on in Ferguson, and it's not a far comparison to what happened to Jimmy Lee Jackson during the time of the civil rights movement that is shown in the film. So I really was thinking about encouraging people that we've come a long way, but we've still got some fighting to do, and we are capable. We've got to carry this torch and take it to the next level."

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This news article has meaning because... 

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This news article has meaning because... 

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This relates to the topic because one of the songs talks about the bombing and how four 4 young girls had died.

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Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who was murdered on June 12, 1963 and they believe he received unfair justice.

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The movie Selma recounts the three 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches that lead to President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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The song was inspired by Macklemore's gay uncles and gay godfather, and is an issue that is personal to him. After playing the song for them they had to use a picture of them as the cover art.

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This song has significance because it is describing the struggles of a gay man throughout his life. And how we have to become more compassionate and loving towards each other, and how we are evolving to do that.

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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - SAME LOVE feat. MARY LAMBERT (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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What do the songs of the Civil Rights Movement represent and what do they mean? 

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What do the songs of the Civil Rights Movement represent and what do they mean? 

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To me the main reason that people write songs is because they want to portray a message to others. And a main message that someone would be trying to portray in this would be their pain, or how they feel about the issues at hand. It could have to do with how certain people matter, or better yet how everyone matters. Or they could be referring to how their people were treated before, and the things that could have hurt them.
Some of the main themes of the songs are about how racism was a problem before, but also how it is still a problem now. And they talk about how things need to change. How we can't let our past mistakes define us, and be how we are today. There is also how some of the songs are different and talking about things other than racism. Some talk about things such as gay rights and how we as a whole have to get over gay being a bad thing. And how everyone should be treated equal.