On Saturday, before Mavis Staples took the stage at Cain's Ballroom, two local students, Nico Berlin and Isabel Argo-Baldonado, were recognized for their submissions to the Mavis Staples Freedom Highway Essay Contest. Written in response to prompts to examine music’s role as a catalyst for conversations around complex issues such as inequality, racism and discrimination, and explore the work of singers and songwriters who tackle these types of social-justice issues in their music, or to discuss

May 24th 1989 Mavis Staples album Time Waits For No One is released by Paisley Park Records. This was the legendary singers first #PaisleyPark release and 6 of the albums 8 tracks were written, produced and had performance input by Prince Included here is a clip of Mavis & Prince in London during the #Lovesexy Tour working on the unreleased track God Is Alive which had been planed for inclusion on the #GraffitiBridge soundtrack #Prince #Prince4Ever #MavisStaples #PrinceLegacy #PrinceHistory | Gl