RIP to Steve Cropper. That unmistakable opening guitar rif in Soul Man came from him…but he wasn’t only an amazing musician, he was also a songwriter who contributed to a long list of hits, including Green Onions by Booker T & The M.G.’s, In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett and Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding. This video is from the first Blues Brothers Con at the Old Joliet Prison in 2022. | Carrie Clark Steinweg

Biography of John Lewis, Civil Rights Activist and Politician

Kahlil Greene on Instagram: "Northern elites were just as racist as southern plantation owners. This Yale story proves it. PLEASE FOLLOW me @kahlil.greene if you learned something new. I make videos about creepy, crazy, and covered-up stories from American history every single day. 😱🇺🇸😬 Credit to: What Could Have Been: a short documentary film about the proposal for America’s first HBCU in New Haven, Connecticut, 1831 Directed and edited by Tubyez Cropper Written