After ascending the stage to receive the Oscar for Best Original Song along with popular crooner John Legend, the Chicago-born hip-hop artist known as Common sought to link the historic civil rights protests in Selma, Alabama with more recent struggles elsewhere. Common’s winning song, Glory, was dedicated to marches on Selma’s Edmund Pettus bridge; the “spirit of that bridge,” Common told assembled guests at the Feb. 22 awards ceremony in Los Angeles, “connects the kid from the south side of Chicago dreaming of a better life, to those in France standing up for their freedom of expression, to the people …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
