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Topic: Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Bruce Springsteen, Mavis Staples, Darlene Love, Dion DiMucci, John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne at the second annual American Music Honors ceremony, Monmouth University, April 24, 2024. (Photo by John Cavanaugh)

A rollicking American Music Honors

Kenneth Womack