“My playlist is the soundtrack of my life,” Tamika D. Mallory tells Apple Music. “I listen to Sam Cooke one moment and Cardi B the next.” Mallory, who notably served as co-president of the Women’s March, is co-founder of the social justice organization Until Freedom. Her Black History Month playlist includes selections by Meek Mill, James Brown, and Solange, uniting the differing moods she encounters as a practiced activist and all-around black music fan. “Some people believe that freedom fighters are always serious and that we are out of touch with the culture,” Mallory says. “In all reality, we are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And music is our motivation.”