Sounds Of Blackness - "Black Lives Matter" song (information, video, & lyrics)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post provides information about the Black Lives Matter movement and showcases the song "Black Lives Matter" by Sounds Of Blackness. My partial transcription of that song's lyrics is also included in this post.

The Addendum to this post features an excerpt from a dailykos article about the Black Lives Matter movement going global.

The content of this post is presented for historical, sociological, cultural and motivational purposes.

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Thanks to the composer of the Sounds Of Blackness' song "Black Lives Matter song and thanks to all those who are associated with that song's performance. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the producer of this video on YouTube.

Black Lives (Also) Matter!

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter
"Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence toward black people. BLM regularly organizes protests around the deaths of black people in killings by law enforcement officers, and broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.

In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin. Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans: Michael Brown, resulting in protests and unrest in Ferguson, and Eric Garner in New York City.[1][2]

Since the Ferguson protests, participants in the movement have demonstrated against the deaths of numerous other African Americans by police actions or while in police custody, including those of Tamir Rice, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Jonathan Ferrell, Sandra Bland, Samuel DuBose, and Freddie Gray, which led to protests and rioting in Baltimore. In the summer of 2015, Black Lives Matter began to publicly challenge politicians—including politicians in the 2016 United States presidential election—to state their positions on BLM issues. The overall Black Lives Matter movement, however, is a decentralized network and has no formal hierarchy or structure.[3]....

The U.S population's perception of the movement varies considerably by race. According to a September 2015 poll on race relations, nearly two-thirds of African Americans mostly agree with Black Lives Matter, while 42% of white Americans are unsure or do not have an opinion about Black Lives Matter.[12] Forty-one percent of white people thought Black Lives Matter advocated violence, 59% of whites thought Black Lives Matter distracted attention from the real issues of racial discrimination, and 46% of whites thought Black Lives Matter was a movement. By comparison, 82% of black people thought Black Lives Matter was a nonviolent movement, 26% of blacks thought Black Lives Matter distracted attention from the real issues of racial discrimination, and 67% of blacks thought Black Lives Matter was a movement.[12][13] A similar poll in June 2016 found that 65% of black American adults supported Black Lives Matter and 40% of white American adults support it. Fifty-nine percent of black Americans thought Black Lives Matter would "be effective, in the long run, in helping blacks achieve equality" and 34% of white Americans thought so.[14][15]"...

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: BLACK LIVES MATTER - No Justice No Peace



Atomic K Records & Productions Published on Jun 29, 2015

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bla....
Hot single by the Grammy Award Winning Sounds of Blackness. A new anthem for racial equality and hope for unity and peace for all.
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The lead vocalist is Yulanda.

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LYRICS - BLACK LIVES MATTER - No Justice No Peace*
(as sung by Sounds Of Blackness)

The Lead singer's words are given in parenthesis

Priceless, and precious
Lead singer [LS]- Precious.
Important and essential.
Irreplaceable
(Yes!)
And ___???
(Mmm mmm
Yeah. Yeah Yeah.)

Yeah!
Oh wee Oh wee Oh wee Oh we Oh
Yeah!
Yeah!
(Sing it loud!)
Black lives matter
Black lives matter
(Sing it loud!)
Sing it proud!
Black lives matter
‘Cause all lives matter.
All lives matter.

Hands up. Don’t shoot.
I can’t breathe.
(I can’t breathe.)
No justice. No peace.
Hand in hand together we stand.
(Together we stand.)

Black lives matter.
(We have always mattered)
Throughout history.
We matter!
(Glorious African kingdoms
Before slavery.
Three hundred years like beast of burden.
The nation built on our back.)
We matter!
Many believed we were animals
Because our skin is black.
Even the constitution said we’re only 3/5th human.)
We matter!
(And that mentality is still a reality.
Police brutality
Harassment and discrimination,
Poverty, injustice
And add humiliation.
We declare

Black lives matter.
Black lives matter.
(Everywhere.)
Black lives matter
‘Cause all lives matter.

(Hands up!)
Hand up. Don’t shoot.
I can’t breathe.
(I can’t breathe.)
No justice. No peace.
(No peace.)
Hand in hand together we stand.
(Together we stand.)

Black lives matter.

group and lead singer scatting

(Black lives matter because we’re equal
In the human family.)
We matter!
(We gave this nation and the world soul and humanity.
We matter ‘cause helps and inspire)
We matter!
(All people everywhere reach higher and higher!
We matter ‘cause we are God’s children.
We matter!
(Beautiful to behold.
We are far more precious
Than diamonds, silver, and gold.
One of a kind. We’re second to none
Our value and our worth
Just as great as anyone
Anywhere on earth!
We proclaim

Black lives matter.
Black lives matter.
(We’re not ashamed.)
Black lives matter
‘Cause all lives matter.

(Hands up!)
Hands up. Don’t shoot.
I can’t breathe.
(I can’t breathe.)
No justice. No peace.
(No peace.)
Hand in hand together we stand.
(Together we stand!
Black lives matter.)
Black lives matter.

(America’s got a lot of problems
But together we can solve it.
In Baltimore, Chicago, L.A.,
New York, Ferguson,
We need everyone.
Red, brown, yellow, black, and white
All precious in His sight.
Catholic, Protestant, and Jew,
Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu)

[lead singer scatting]

(Hey!)
Priceless, and precious
Lead singer [LS]- Precious.
Important and essential.
Irreplaceable
(Yes!)
And ___???

(Sing it loud!)
Black lives matter.
(Sing it proud!)

Black lives matter.
(Black lives matter)
Because all lives matter.
(All lives matter)

(Hands up!)
Hands up. Don’t shoot.
I can’t breathe.
(I can’t breathe.)
No justice. No peace.
(No peace.)
Hand in hand together we stand.
(Together we stand!
Black lives matter.)
Black lives matter.

(Hands up!)
Hands up. Don’t shoot.
I can’t breathe.
(I can’t breathe.)
No justice. No peace.
(No peace.)
Hand in hand together we stand.
(Together we stand!
Black lives matter.)
Black lives matter.

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Transcription by Azizi Powell from the video. Additions and corrections are welcome.

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ADDENDUM
From http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/17/1547785/-Why-Black-Lives-Matter-is-going-global "Why Black Lives Matter is going global" By Sher Watts Spooner, 2016/07/17
"The three-year-old Black Lives Matter movement has always been considered an American phenomenon. After all, no other country has the number of deaths by gun violence or the number of police shootings that we do in the United States.

But the movement has resonated in several countries across the world, both in solidarity with those who have been killed in the U.S. and as a force against anti-black racism worldwide.

The deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile in Minnesota sparked protests across the United States. But those protests were echoed days later in demonstrations in London, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Multiracial crowds of protesters held signs printed with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter and chanted, "No justice, no peace." Black Lives Matter also has chapters in Canada, South Africa, and Ghana, although the official Black Lives Matter website lists only the Canadian chapter.”...
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-history-and-meaning-of-chant-no.html for the pancocojams post "The History And Meaning Of The Chant "No Justice, No Peace" ".

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