The Best Love Songs Of The ’80s, Ranked

For centuries, Black Americans have used music as a powerful tool. In the antebellum South, enslaved people sang spirituals to covertly plan their escape to freedom. Poems were put to music and performed to celebrate the eradication of slavery, and ballads and hip hop have been leveraged to protest violence and discrimination against Black Americans. Below are 11 songs through history that have given voice to African American progress, protest and pride.

From Whitney Houston to the Cure, we’ve ranked the best ’80s songs It also boasts perhaps the most fitting last line in a sex song to date.

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