We Insist: A Century Of Black Music Against State Violence

From Billie Holiday to Kendrick Lamar, this list of 50 songs compiles a century of Black musicians showing what America's official histories would hide in plain sight: the destructiveness of white supremacy.

After years of effort by Black immigrants in England to rebuild the nation post-World War II, British policy makers in the 1950s and 1960s thanked them with immigration restriction laws as well as housing and employment discrimination, all of which was enforced with assistance from police. The repetitive pop melody of"Police on My Back" mirrors the repetition of police harassment experienced by the singer Eddy Grant, himself an immigrant from Guyana.

The words that greet Wonder's protagonist upon arrest —"get in that cell, N*****" – became a key sample in hip-hop, employed by artists from Public Enemy to Slick Rick.As with other popular soul-era artists such as Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, the multiracial Long Beach group War found ways to subtly speak on police brutality.

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