We’re take a dive into songs about Blackness as it’s experienced across the globe.
- Michael Kiwanuka tells the story of writing "Black Man in a White World" and the boxes Black people can be put into in terms of the music they’re allowed to listen to and make.
- Twin sisters Naomi Diaz and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz of Ibeyi take apart their 2017 song "Deathless." It was written by Lisa-Kaindé after being stopped by a policeman on a Paris subway.
- And Sudan Archives talks about getting the idea for her 2022 single "Selfish Soul" when she asked her boyfriend to shave her head.
