Lila Downs' New Song Is About Indigenous Workers' Invisible Labor
Downs speaks with Rachel Martin about "Dark Eyes," a song inspired by essential workers from Native American communities who are often overlooked.
The Song Project, where we ask musicians to write an original song about the COVID era, continues today with . The artist grew up splitting her time between Minnesota and Oaxaca, Mexico, and says that she always felt pulled between three different cultures — Indigenous Mixtec, Mexican national and American. So when she agreed to
