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Plenty of folks fought hard so you could chill out today, including Stevie Wonder. He took the push for making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a holiday to the people with his R&B hit, "Happy Birthday."


More recently, Mavis Staples teamed up with Ry Cooder to morph civil rights anthems into laid-back funk tracks reminiscent of the classic tunes she recorded with the Staples Singers.


Black Voices offers an in-depth retrospective of King, including pictures of him with his family and on civil rights marches.