James Brown

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FrB4uQyU0D
Say It Loud, I'm Black & I'm Proud

From Wikipedia:

Responding to pressure from black activists, including H. Rap Brown, to take a bigger stance on their issues and from footage of black on black crime committed in inner cities, Brown wrote the lyrics to the song "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud", which his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis accompanied with a musical composition. Released late that summer, the song's lyrics helped to make it an anthem for the civil rights movement. Brown only performed the song sporadically following its initial release and later stated he had regrets recording it, saying in 1984, "Now 'Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud' has done more for the black race than any other record, but if I had my choice, I wouldn't have done it, because I don't like defining anyone by race. To teach race is to teach separatism."[117] In his autobiography he stated:

The song is obsolete now ... But it was necessary to teach pride then, and I think the song did a lot of good for a lot of people ... People called "Black and Proud" militant and angry – maybe because of the line about dying on your feet instead of living on your knees. But really, if you listen to it, it sounds like a children's song. That's why I had children in it, so children who heard it could grow up feeling pride ... The song cost me a lot of my crossover audience. The racial makeup at my concerts was mostly black after that. I don't regret it, though, even if it was misunderstood.[118]

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James would also experience shunning from many in the black community for his avowed support of Richard Nixon over Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern, but he continued to create socially conscious music at this time:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7u_XhJMSbI

World (Part 1 & 2)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_holg85-Sk

I Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYrXdkKQTeE

Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3V00h8tnk

Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothing