Ties That Bind: Sound Is Our Weapon

My new column is up at PopMatters this morning. Titled “Sound Is Our Weapon: Protest Music and Black Lives Matter,” it started out as me simply listening to Janelle Monae and Wondaland’s “Hell You Talmbout” and Rhiannon Giddens’ “Cry No More” and, as you can read, it became something more than that.