00:00Music has always been at the core of resistance.
00:03It has served to guide people, to uplift them, and to give them strength.
00:07Enslaved Africans sang, Follow the Drinking Gourd to escape slavery.
00:12Follow the drinking gourd, follow the drinking gourd.
00:20For the old man is waiting for to carry you to freedom.
00:26Follow the drinking gourd.
00:36In the labor movement, workers sang solidarity forever to say the union makes them strong.
00:43Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong.
00:49During Jim Crow, folks sang songs like,
00:51Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom.
00:59During sit-ins and march-ins, Fannie Lou Hamer would sing,
01:02Fall in silence, gone to jail.
01:04Got no money to forgo the bell.
01:07Keep your eyes on the price.
01:10Hold on.
01:13During the women's liberation movement, they sang,
01:15I can do anything.
01:17I am strong.
01:19I am invincible.
01:20I am woman.
01:22So the music of my people in Puerto Rico.
01:25Que bonito bandera, que bonito bandera.
01:28Que bonito bandera, la bandera puertorriqueña.
01:31One of the most popular forms of music came from the struggle,
01:35from dreams of revolution.
01:37That music is hip hop.
01:38And this resistance, it feels much different.
01:41I'm standing at the front of visions led by wonder women.
01:43Rooted in love and a common thread.
01:46Knowing if they don't come for me, they'll come for you instead, so.
01:49The great artist and activist Harry Belafonte said,
01:51When the movement is strong, the music is strong.
01:54The resistance movement is strong.
01:55And now we need to make the music strong.
01:58That is why we created the Resistance Revival Chorus.
02:01We believe that art and culture change hearts and minds.
02:05And that joy is an act of resistance.
02:08Well, I woke up this morning with my mind.
02:14Stayed on freedom.
02:17I woke up this morning with my mind.
02:22Stayed on freedom.
02:25I woke up this morning with my mind.
02:31Stayed on freedom.
02:33Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
