A.D. Amorosi While they helped jump-start the 1960s, great protest songs had been few and far between in the past 50-odd years, apart from the occasional bolts of lightning like N.W.A’s “F— the Police” or Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” But 2020 is different, and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery at the hands of police and vigilantes have let loose a wave of righteous rage and protests that have galvanized the world.