Book-ended by by audio clips of civil rights leader Robert F. Williams and West African Vodun symbolism, the video for rapper and Real News contributor Eze Jackson’s one-year-old song “Un-Apologetically Black” is as focused and concise as the song itself.
Touching on everything from white privilege, memorizing Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” as a kid, poor conditions in city schools, being pulled over by police and Malcolm X, the song is both a documentation of racial injustice and an anthem of cultural pride.
The video, which includes a clip of pig heads being put over the mugshots of the officers charged with Freddie Gray’s death, features African-American actors up against a brick wall with a search light shining on them as they raise their fists. But by the end, they are dancing and mouthing the words of Jackson’s soulful chorus.
Watch the clip below.
The song is available to download for free here.
