The song “Blk Girl Soldier” by Jamila Woods is all about celebrating the strength of black women by combining historical icons with the black women that are currently fighting injustice. Her music is about peace, justice, and equality. Erica Dawson, in her poem “When Rap Spoke Straight to God”, talks about what it means to be a black woman in a “country that is ruled by institutions of whiteness” (Publishers Weekly, 2018). She writes about the struggles and hardships that black bodies are constantly having to dealt with, and the everyday violence inflicted on them – emotional and physical – that characterizes what is called white supremacy. From the poet’s perspective, even though their history brings them scars, it is certainly a strong reminder of how they were/are able to overcome the brutality of oppression and still have hope and capacity to reach the light. Both the song and the poem relate to each other in the way that they protest about a country that fails to reckon with its past, but at the same time, celebrate the best of black culture without forgetting or ignoring its history – after all, both are simply trying to communicate the light at the end of the tunnel.