About this episode

Mavis Staples discusses her upbringing with the Staples Singers and their impactful messages during civil unrest.

Mavis Staples is pure love and light. She grew up as part of the Staples Singers, a family whose powerful messages of peace rang loud and clear through times of civil unrest.

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