President Donald Trump has mobilized more than 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles, setting up a clash ...

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Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights movement ... artists doing traditional Civil Rights-era freedom songs (with an assist from Brooklyn art-rock legends TV on the Radio.