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As Protests Grow, Luci Murphy & The People's Music Network Ensure There Are Songs to Go With Them

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The 43-year-old organization that once counted Pete Seeger as a member, has seen its membership grow 52% in the wake of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter activism, yet it still struggles to attract younger members and people of color If the world was not in the midst of a pandemic, Luci Murphy would be in the streets every day, leading Black Lives Matter activists through "Ella's Song," the Bernice Johnson Reagon classic containing this verse: "We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes/ until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons/ is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers' sons." Instead, the 69-year-old singer -- she refers to herself as “an interpreter” -- who has demonstrated in Cuba, Iraq and her

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