Ms. Jaylin Brown is a 2020 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. Take is Easy is a Poetic Ep that was released in July '22.

Projects like Black Music City are using financial grants to uplift Black Musicians. You can watch videos of their final showcases of their 2021 and 2022 Grantees on their page.

Amanda Seales is well known for using comedy and her internet platform to speak out against racism and the Black feminist experience. Backed up by jazz greats like Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin, Seales uses spoken word to reclaim the “strong woman” stereotype that is born out of the controlling image of matriarch.

Ibeyi takes the speech of Michelle Obama, “The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls”, and weaves it throughout their song, “No Man is Big Enough for My Arms”. Using the voice of Michelle Obama, they are providing us with a rally against the misogynistic tyraids of President Trump. They made this song specifically to speak out against his attacks on San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz after she spoke up to recover her city after Hurricane Maria.

H.E.R., like Mamie Smith, uses her music to protest and speak on the senseless killing of George Floyd and protests of Summer 2020.

H.E.R. in her song “Lord Is Coming” pays homage to the slave songs and gospel of her ancestors. She intertwines the gospel sounds of “The Lord is Coming” with spoken word lyrics that speaks to the past and present problems of the modern political and politicized Black experience. She tries to find common in these lyrics, seeming to say there may not be any: “History, is not my brother's story The original founders were buried in the ground where men have planted seeds of disease And they've justified being thieves Feeding their inner demons and blaming the minorities It's a World War III, corruption versus greed Not you versus me But do we ever think of the need for inner peace? They can't put a price on your soul, don't matter your religion Right and wrong is something everybody knows They pick and choose what's equal Who's good and who's evil And this is the devil's world but the Lord is coming for his people”

In the present day, we see the voice of the Black feminist ring out in times of racial tension, police brutality, and a rise in white supremacy.

The music produced by Black feminists in the last 5-10 years harkens back to Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues”, especially as Black bodies are being killed by police and self-righteous, self-proclaimed “vigilanties”.

From Mamie Smith we can draw a line to more modern artists.

Women who sang songs that represented the Black female experience, and brought their representation to the forefront throughout modern decades.

“Crazy Blues” not only opened the door for African Americans to finally hear blues written and sung by blues artists, but the song also spoke to the angst and rage felt after the race massacres of the Red Summer.

“Traditionally, blues assumed a similar function in African-American oral culture to that played by print media for White, visually based culture. Blues was not just entertainment- it was a way of solidifying community and commenting on the social fabric of working-class Black life in America.” (Hill Collins, 1999, 105)