Jamila Woods: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Jan. 29, 2018 | Suraya Mohamed -- Singer, songwriter, poet, educator and community organizer Jamila Woods is also a freedom fighter: a voice that celebrates black ancestry, black feminism and black identity. “Look at what they did to my sisters last century, last week,“ goes a line from “Blk Girl Soldier,“ her powerful opening number at the Tiny Desk. “Traumatic things ... happen to black people, but then you still have to go to work the next day, or you still have to wake up and teach a class, or go take