In a special two-part interview, Mavis Staples joins Shad to discuss her decades-long career, her family's role in the civil rights movement and why — in the aftermath of Ferguson — we must collectively heed the lessons of history.
The legendary gospel/soul singer and civil rights activist is the subject of a new documentary titled Mavis!, screening at this year's Hot Docs Festival. She tells Shad it was time to put the Staples story on the record, and "let the world know pops and his daughters were here".