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Saturday July 25th, 2020 with Heavy Ben
Songs for Emmett Till and John Lewis... a change is gonna come
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(civil_rights_leader)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/02/john-lewis-martin-luther-king-jr/552581/
(photo from this article)
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Hi Ben, digging this
8:14 PM, July 25th, 2020