The singer-songwriter shares details of her upcoming album merging music and activism
. The singer-songwriter shares how she turned the raps, poems, and songs of incarcerated writers into a collaborative album,“Should you listen to this record start to finish, I think at the end the feeling you come away with — I hope — is ‘wow.’ You relate,” says DiFranco.
“You feel, ‘they’re just like me.'” The longtime activist hopes the album will humanize mass incarceration for listeners. “If we don’t have a loved one or a friend in prison, it’s easy to not really know what’s happening, that we have two million people locked in cages in the United States.”You can find the show on
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