Set to the tune of The Sound of Music's "My Favorite Things," Lauryn Hill's "Black Rage" isn't directly about Michael Brown (she's been performing it since 2012), but she dedicated the song to his memory this week because in a way it is about Michael in that it spells out all the foundational racism that led to his murder being possible.

Martin Luther King famously reassured a nation, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." We will get there someday. Until then, it's important to have songs like these for the long road ahead.

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Ferguson Inspires Protest Music by J. Cole and Lauryn Hill