Reflecting on the music released by changemakers such as Aretha Franklin, Public Enemy, Stevie Wonder, Gil Scott-Heron, and Beyonce, there will be remarks from Erica Campbell, Big Gipp, Raheem Devaughn, Isaac Hayes III, REV. Al Sharpton, and substantially more!

Above all, this Martin Luther King Jr. Day special is dedicated to remembering some artists and songs that provide the soundtrack to fighting for justice and equality. It additionally incorporates first-hand accounts, soul-stirring vocal performances, interviews with artists and media, archived footage from speeches, and the list goes on.

Furthermore, features in the film span centuries. Including themes of Negro spirituals, like “Swing Low Sweet Chariot,” viral music videos by young, contemporary artists like Keedron Bryant, soul and funk anthems during the Black Power movement performed by Aretha Franklin and Curtis Mayfield, and many others.

In particular, UNSUNG PRESENTS: MUSIC & THE MOVEMENT‘s two one-hour specials are an examination of the power music has in transforming a cultural movement. In addition, the recently announced winner of Reach Media’s “The Song” contest will be featured. Sunny Dizzle and the group Steaksawse will broadcast their debut of the original track “KliKKK KlaKKK”. In fact, the single will release globally on Friday, January 15, 2020 and featured on Reach Media radio stations. 

Some of the people involved in making this production are executive producer A. Smith & Co. Productions’ Arthur Smith and Frank Sinton. Also with Executive Producers Mark Rowland, Co-Executive Producer Kysha Mounia, and Co-Executive Producer P. Frank Williams. Moreover, for TV One, Jason Ryan is Executive Producer in Charge of Production, Donyell Kennedy-McCullough is Senior Director of Talent & Casting, and Robyn Greene Arrington is Vice President of Original Programming and Production.

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In case you haven’t heard of the Mama Luke foundation/movement, hip hop legend, Kangol Kid and Minister Shaunda Lumpkin teamed up to start the foundation which has raised massive amounts of money in support of breast cancer awareness. The Mama Luke Foundation began after Lumpkin’s mother passed from breast cancer in 2010, and the hip hop community united to take a stand against losing anymore mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts and more to the tragic disease.

The duo started the “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” walk back in 2010 and the event has taken off since then. This year, students at Harlem’s Mosiac Preparatory Academy raised hundreds of dollars for the walk, which assisted in “Team Mama Luke” being the third highest-raising team in Newark, New Jersey

In order to celebrate the kids’ accomplishments, the Mama Luke Foundation is hosting a celeb-filled appreciation event at Harlem’s Doug E’s Chicken & Waffles featuring invited guests such as Ice-T, Doug E. Fresh, Roxanne Shante and more. The event will take place on December 18th, but until then check out some of the amazing work the Mama Luke Foundation and supporters have done at www.facebook.com/MamaLukeGFL.

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Hip-Hop is partially recognized as a “Sport”.  DJs compete, Break dancers dual and rappers battle.  This has always been the “code of the streets” until Rapper Kangol Kid (lead member of rap group UTFO) and Roxanne Shantè’s “Roxanne War” took this street-code to the airwaves and dominated Hip-Hop radio with the mid 80’s rap song “Roxanne, Roxanne”.  Today, both artists are managed by Film Executive Shaunda Lumpkin and together have taken on a new battle… Breast Cancer.

Six months ago, Shaunda’s mother Gay Frances Lucas (affectionately known as “Mama Luke”) lost her three-year battle with this disease.  In her last year, Mama Luke appeared on the Wendy Williams Show for a Breast Cancer Awareness Special and was invited on the Tom Joyner Fantastic Voyage as a VIP guest.  Her passing spawned the Mama Luke Movement, which encouraged Hip-Hop Artists Dana Dane, Joe Ski Love, NYOIL, R&B Group Force MDs and Actor Stu “Large” Riley (hit movie “KICKASS”) to walk alongside Shaunda, Kangol and Shantè (who is also a breast cancer survivor) at the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on Sunday, October 17, 2010, where they were greeted by Newark, New Jersey’s Mayor Cory Booker.  A week later, the ACS recognized the Mama Luke team as a Top 10 fundraising team of Newark, NJ.

This accomplishment led Shaunda and Kangol to create the monthly “Mama Luke Salute” designed to honor a breast cancer fighter and take them from a day of chemo treatment to an evening of “royalty treatment”. During this event, the “fighter” is showered with gifts from various sponsors.

Kangol and Shaunda’s insatiable appetite for bringing awareness to this disease has now manifested as Hip-Hop’s First Bowling Team.  The HIP-HOP PIN DROP is designed to cure cancer “One PIN At A Time” as various Hip-Hop artists/celebrities will travel from city to city, to our nation’s various bowling alleys and bowl against fans while raising funds and awareness.  The first game will be Thursday, January 6, 2011 in New York City’s FRAMES Bowling Lounge located at 550 Ninth Avenue and West 40^th Street.  Scheduled to bowl are: Sugar Hill Gang, Kool Herc, Doitall, Dana Dane, UTFO, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, Jam Master Jay’s son Jason Mizell Jr.… and the list keeps growing.

Shaunda and Kangol’s long-term goal is to design and manufacture a line of Mama Luke Athletic Footwear to generate more funds towards a cure.  Kangol says, “This is the closest we want anyone to walk in her (Mama Luke) shoes”.

This is just another example of how hip hop can make a positive change in people’s lives. I have known Kangol for close to 20 years and he has always demonstrated a sincere willingness to come to service if he is called upon and for that we salute him and the others who are bringing awareness to a very important cause” stated hip hop veteran Dennis Byron who toured with the group U.T.F.O. many years ago.

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ACS Mama Luke Donation Link

Contact: Alyse Feldman, On the Fly Public Relations, 347-223-5904
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