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Vic Mensa has shared his first new music of 2021 in the form of ‘Shelter’, which features Chance The Rapper and Wyclef Jean.
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The hard-hitting track, which you can hear below, hears Mensa tackle the coronavirus crisis’ disproportionate effects on communities of colour, police brutality, incarceration and more.
A powerful video directed by Andre Muir sees actors lying down to symbolise the disproportionate mortality rate among Black people in the United States due to institutional racism.
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Mensa announced the track yesterday (February 4), describing it as “one of my favorite records I’ve ever done.”
SHELTER ft. @chancetherapper & @wyclef at midnight. This one of my favorite records I’ve ever done. Thank y’all for blessing it
Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige and more call on Biden for racial justice commission
EQAULITY: Alicia Keys leads calls on the Biden administration to launch racial justice initiative (Image by: Arianna Dreshler/AFP via Getty Images)
BLACK MUSIC stars including Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder and Mary J Blige have called for the US government to commission a racial justice platform within 100 days of the start of the Biden administration.
The new calls are led by Grammy award-winning artist Alicia Keys after she shared a video titled 17 Ways Black People Are Killed in America where musicians such as Khalid, Summer Walker and Migos, described the deaths of Black Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.
Alicia Keys. CREDIT: Getty
Alicia Keys, Summer Walker, Ty Dolla $ign, Mary J. Blige and more have called on the incoming Joe Biden administration to launch a commission to address racial injustice in America within their first 100 days of taking office.
17 artists, also including Vic Mensa, Quavo, Offset, A$AP Ferg and 070 Shake appear in a new video, titled ’17 Ways Black People Are Killed in America’. It draws attention to 17 Black Americans killed in recent years, including the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd at the hands of police last year.
It’s a follow-up to a similar video by Keys’ We Are Here Movement back in 2016, titled ’23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America’, which demanded “radical transformation to heal the long history of systemic racism”.