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Today on \u201cThe Daily,\u201d we present Episode 3 of \u201c1619,\u201d a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.\n\nBlack music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. Guest: Wesley Morris, a critic-at-large for The New York Times.\n\nThis episode contains explicit language.\n\nBackground reading:\xa0\u201cThe proliferation of black music across the planet \u2014 the proliferation, in so many senses, of being black \u2014 constitutes a magnificent joke on American racism,\u201d Wesley Morris writes.The \u201c1619\u201d audio series is part of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. Read more from the project here.