Black Anthems

The Hudlin 100 for 2010

In honor of black history month, here’s a collection of anthems that made us feel proud, and made us feel like making the world a better place!

Let’s start with the obvious:

Then this one will actually make you cry:

Hard to believe the culture was so uptight this song was a metaphor for public protest:

Curtis Mayfield wrote many anthems, but it’s hard to get more positive than this one:

Speaking of anthems, no one wrote more of them, and more great ones, than this man:

My personal vote for best of the list:

McFadden and Whitehead took a line from p.funk and smoothed it out of pop consumption:

Who packed more educational information into song than this one?:

Soundtrack for a revolution:

Underrated masterpiece…who critiqued our current plight better than this song?: