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Apr 26, 2023 | shadowproof.com | Lonnie Hubert Holley |Macy Gray |Fucked Up |CJ Baker

The following was originally published at Ongoing History of Protest Music. Mark Stewart made several contributions to the canon of protest music as part of the pioneering UKpost-punk band The Pop Group, his solo work, and various other projects. He died onApril 19, 2023, at the age of 62, and no cause of death was immediately shared. Several musicians including the trip-hop group Massive Attack, Steve Albini, and Nick Cave paid their respect acknowledging Stewart’s considerable influence.

Mar 29, 2023 | shadowproof.com | Lonnie Hubert Holley |Macy Gray |Fucked Up |CJ Baker

Dissenter FeaturedLatest NewsThe Dissenter Originally published at Ongoing History of Protest Music Founded in 1911, the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children was a juvenile correctional facility in the Mount Meigs community near Montgomery, Alabama. The juvenile facility was notorious for the abuse inflicted on Black youth. As late as the 1960s, prisoners were forced to pick cotton from early morning to late evening, with physical and sexual abuse commonplace. “This was functionally a...