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    Jun 13, 2019 2 minutes

    SYL JOHNSON

    Is It Because I’m Black? NUMERO GROUP

    9/10

    Chicago singer’s sad, angry orchestral-soul milestone

    There’s a case to be made that America’s first concept album about black consciousness arrived 13 months before Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On. With lyrics that shift between expressions of world-weary

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