Calling All Seekers

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Calling All Seekers – February 5, 2026

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In advance of KPFA’s Black History & Culture Special, Here to Stay airs this Saturday, February 7 from 6am–6pm, Calling All Seekers is devoting the entire show both this week and next week to the astonishing breadth, bravery and artistry that characterize the Black Experience in the United States. Since 1619 – against impossible odds — Black American artists, writers, poets, thinkers, athletes, politicians and activists have turned unimaginable pain into breathtaking art.

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Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
Langston Hughes Part I - The Struggle: Phyllis Wheatley The Glory of Negro History Folkways Records
Charles Lloyd The Water Is Wide The Water Is Wide ECM Records
Cordell Hull Reagon Brown Baby Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Arna Bontemps Little Brown Baby (Dunbar, Paul Laurence) Anthology of Negro Poets In the U.S.A. - 200 Years Folkways Records
Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba My Angel (Malaika) An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba RCA Records Label
The Platters My Prayer The Platters Contents Korea
God Moore the Elixir So Racist Passport: Ego Sum Qui Sum Alpha Realm Ex.
The Golden Gate Quartet No Restricted Signs Golden Gate Quartet CBS
Lawrence McKiver and Doretha Skipper Intro and Knee Bend Every Tone a Testimony Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The Montgomery Improvement Association Keep Your Hand on the Plow Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Brother Will Hairston The Alabama Bus Presents JVB
The Neville Brothers Sister Rosa Yellow Moon A&M
Tracy Chapman Talkin' Bout a Revolution Tracy Chapman Elektra Records
Big Bill Broonzy When Do I Get to Be Called a Man? The History of Folk Underground Inside Records
The Impressions Choice Of Colors - Single Version The Young Mods' Forgotten Story Rhino (Pure)
Rev. Jesse Jackson Speech to the Democratic National Convention, 1988 Our Time Has Come MCA
Elaine Brown Until We're Free Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974 Light In The Attic
Michael Harper Dear John, Dear Coltrane 100 Great Poems - Classic Poets & Beatnik Freaks W.O.W. - Words of Wisdom Records
John Coltrane Alabama The Gentle Side of John Coltrane Impulse!
Billie Holiday Strange Fruit 100 Jazz UMG Recordings, Inc.
Gil Scott-Heron Lady Day and John Coltrane Pieces of a Man Flying Dutchman