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Thursday, April 8 2010
Back to Living: Curtis Mayfield and the Making of 'New World Order'
Curtis Mayfield penned many of the songs that would become anthems for the civil rights movement. Later in life, however, he would face different challenges, as documented on his heroic 1996 album New World Order.
Wednesday, July 18 2007
Part 3: Curtis Mayfield to The English Beat (1970-1980)
"Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine, go down .." Julie Andrews sang in Mary Poppins. Indeed, a bitter dose of angry words in need of saying, and set to a beat, quite effectively gets heard.
