Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come”
February 19, 2019
When black artist Sam Cooke started writing music, political views were not normally expressed through music, and especially through black people during the Civil Rights period. When he and his wife were refused at a whites-only hotel in 1963, Cooke decided that he would not be silenced. This was his first song vocally coming out about the injustices that African Americans face every day.