Listen Live
97.9 The Box Featured Video
CLOSE

Black Panther and Creed actor Michael B. Jordan and other celebs star in a new PSA about police brutality in the U.S.

Created by actor and Civil Rights icon Harry Belafonte, Against The Wall  juxtaposes audio excerpts from police radio accounts of unarmed black men being shot and killed by officers with Black celebs, The Daily Beast wrote. Jordan joins Van Jones, Marc Lamont Hill, Michael K. Williams and Danny Glover in this collaboration with the social justice organization Sankofa.org. It also includes Sydney G James and Sophia Dawson to convey that continue to impact Black women as well.

The constant vilification of people of color is not new to the American psyche. Somehow cell phone video, dash cam video and news media flashing before our very eyes, hour after hour, the murder and victimization of black and brown bodies has desensitized us,” says Belafonte.

We are shining a light and calling out to all to take a look, listen and feel within your heart to take action,” he added.

Directed by Christopher Renz and Gerard Bus, the short film humanizes Black life as it is often caught in the crosshairs of police brutality and state violence.

Bush recently talked to Mashable about the meaning behind their video.

We thought it would prove powerful to place these celebrated people in the same positions that too many within the black community face — being forced against the wall, hands up, on the ground and eventually shot dead by police,” Bush said. “You can see and feel the same pain, bewilderment, fear, humiliation in the faces of these celebrated people, as you could imagine would have been on the faces of the victims themselves.”

Thank you. Black IS NOT a weapon.

RELATED LINKS:

Alfre Woodard To Celebs ‘Shame On You If You Don’t Raise Your Voice About Police Brutality’

PlayersInProtest: These Are The Athletes Taking A Stand Against Injustice & Police Brutality

Evening Minute: Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Graces The Cover Of ‘Time Magazine

Michael B. Jordan, Marc Lamont Hill And Danny Glover Star In Powerful Police Brutality PSA  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com