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Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival

This is Jesse Hagopian's newsletter, "Teach Truth & Sing the Blues": Dispatches from the frontlines of the struggle for antiracist education, social justice organizing, and creative expression.

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  1. Issue · Jul 4, 2026

    Semiquincentennial Blues (opens the original)

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    Semiquincentennial Bluesfor Gil Scott-HeronBy Jesse HagopianI was wondering about our yesterdays,and started diggingthrough the rubble.What I foundwas Gil Scott-Heron’sBicentennial Blues.And he’d goneto a hell of a lot of troubleto tell us somethingfifty years ago,the countrywasn’t readyto hear.America had the blues,he said,because itprovidedthe atmosphere

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