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We have complied our first ever mixtape! Themed after our slogan, “Peace, Unity & Justice,” we picked songs that have inspired us as organizers and activists. Two tracks even feature Youth Together employees, Academic Coordinator/Singer Siaira Shawn and Director of Special Projects/Music Producer Nick James. Click the covers or link to download and if you would like to give a donation for the mixtape, you can here.
Songs presented in this mixtape represent our views regarding love, healing, liberation, perseverance, and living peacefully. This mixtape follows a story of reclamation; a reclamation of our culture, freedom, histories, minds, bodies, identity, spirituality, and aspirations. This reclaiming of these values is evident in songs such as “Sorrow Tears and Blood,” a Fela Kuti cover by R&B singer, Bilal, “Too Many” by Siaira Shawn, “Soldier” by Erykah Badu, and “We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue” by Curtis Mayfield. Songs such as “Stimela (The Coal Train)” by Hugh Masekela that speaks of perseverance from Apartheid and Stevie Wonder’s, “Visions,” exemplifies hope in the face of adversity. We hope these songs bring strength and insight as it has for us. We will continue to provide music as a way to further the mission of peace, unity and justice.
Thank You,
Youth Together
Siaira Shawn – Too Many
Tracklist
1. Hugh Masekela – Stimela
2. K’naan – Let’s Start
3. Akon Feat. Kardinal Offishall – Mama Africa Remix
4. Bob Marley – Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
5. Bilal – Sorrow Tears And Blood
6. Curtis Mayfield – We Can Do Everything But Get Along (Live Skit)
7. Curtis Mayfield – We the People Who are Darker than Blue (Live)
8. Erykah Badu – Soldier
9. Nneka Feat. Jay Electronica – Walking
10. Mos Def Feat. Talib Kweli – History
11. De La Soul – Stakes Is High
12. Lauryn Hill – Rebel
13. Miriam Makeba – Mas Que Nada
14. Siaira Shawn – Too Many
15. Crown City Rockers – Culture (Nick James Remix)
16. Stevie Wonder – Visions
17. Outkast – Liberation
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