Mavis Staples talks to a reporter during an interview in her apartment on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, April 4, 2007. Staples has recorded a new album of "freedom songs," drawing on her personal experience in the civil rights movement and with Martin Luther King, Jr. (Alex Garcia/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

Sounding the Call for Equality: An Interview with Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples

We'll Never Turn Back

(Anti-)

US release date: 24 April 2007

UK release date: 7 May 2007

[25 April 2007]

by Greg Kot

Chicago Tribune (MCT)

Staples: "What has really changed? I'm 67 years old, and I was here the first time around and it's still not fixed. We can't let Dr. King shed his blood and die for us trying to get justice and live in a world like this."

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