Nina Simone should be included, and a few of her best songs that touch on Civil Rights and Black heritage are:

Mississippi Goddam

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Why? (The King of Love is Dead)

Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

Revolution

Four Women

Otis Redding

Fats Domino

Smiley Lewis

Wilbert Harrison

Lil Ritchard

Phillip Lynott (Frontman/Bassist for Thin Lizzy)

Taj Mahal

Tom Morello

Nina Simone, Ledbelly, Curtis Mayfield

Why does it only allow me to access three stations and only 4-5 songs on repeat per station? Am I doing something wrong?

YOUNG THUG MLK

Tracey Chapman!!!

You're missing Otis Redding and Howlin' Wolf

I haven't seen Cannonball Adderley suggested.

Elizabeth Cotten

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Abner Jay

• Florence Price - early 20th century composer who was the first black woman to have her orchestral works premiered by major symphonies
• Wynton Marsalis along with the whole Marsalis family
• Troy Andrews (Trombone Shorty)
• Scott Joplin
• Jon Batiste and the whole Batiste Family
• Ornette Coleman
• Charles Mingus
• Ma Rainy
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe
• Nina Simone

Ellis Marsalis Jr.

Junior Kimbrough, Henry Thomas, Lee Dorsey, Tommie Young, Lightnin Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Howlin Wolf, Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie McTell, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGee :)

Etta James is a favorite

Ooooh, you should also play Gil scott-heron's Whitey on the moon

Also, and not to be captain obvious here, but the Billie Holiday song 'Strange Fruit' is literally about lynchings

Nina Simone is a good one too, important on straight black history grounds but she actually also has a song off of her live album, Nuff Said, that features a song performed the day after MLK died called 'Why? The King of Love Is dead'

Also if I was going to play a Stevie Wonder song for black history month, I would play the Black history month Stevie Wonder song, 'Black Man'

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Grandmaster Flash, Wu Tang Clan.

You could do lists and lists just for jazz, but a bit mover in jazz history was the drummer Kenny Clarke aka Klook. He was one of the first drummers to use the ride for time keeping and basically jump-started bebop drumming by his comping or "dropping bombs".

If you want some more recent people I'd recommend Benjamin Clementine and Gregory Porter.

Mississippi Goddamn

There are videos of The Rolling Stones bringing Howlin Wolf on to TV shows to show his talent.

Go back and study the slave workers singing in the fields and how they were messages about escaping via the Underground Railroad. Follow the Drinking Gourd. Then how that turned into jazz and blues and how the MOTHER FUCKING WHITE MA…sorry, how some nice young men helped promote the blues singers’ tunes to create rock and roll. Harlem Renaissance.