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    Get A Black History Lesson From Mavis Staples

    Listen to "I'll Be Rested"—a taut, emotional primer on African American civil rights sung by one of her most talented figures.

    Logie Young
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    Backed by a brilliant gospel choir (and Ry Cooder), the former Staple Singer makes a heavenly roll call of all the leaders she plans to see when her own time comes:

    "Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, Brother Malcolm, Dr. Thomas A. Dorsey,

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    Sister Dorothy Love Coates, R.F.K., M.L.K."

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    She saves her most touching name, however, for the end:

    “Papa Staples…and you gotcha guitar, too.”

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