Oscar Winner John Legend Talks Blacks In Prison, Police Brutality On ‘State of the Union’

While accepting his Oscar along with rapper Common for their song “Glory” (from the film Selma), multiple Grammy-award winning musician John Legend caused a stir when he called out America’s current enormous rate of incarceration for black men in America. “The struggle for justice is right now,” he said, comparing the rate of imprisonment to pre-Civil Rights Era segregation. Since then, he’s emerged as a serious advocate for prison reform and racial justice, founding Free…

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