Mavis Staples Wonders, 'If All I Was Was Black'
The veteran gospel and R & B singer collaborates with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy for a new album she hopes will "change the world."
is in her eighth decade of singing. She began performing spiritual music as a child in the 1940s and then traveled across the country with her family on the gospel circuit as part of . Along the way she saw the ugly side of racist America. Now Mavis Staples has new music with her longtime friend, collaborator and frontman that takes on the current state of the country and ongoing racial conflicts that she says feel all-too familiar.
