John Legend on broadening the Black experience and criminal justice reform

12/02/20 • 31 min

Music represents such a vital perspective with the potential to cut across boundaries, habits, and prejudice, and musicians have a lot to offer, not just within, but beyond the world of entertainment. John Legend is a perfect example, having blessed our screens and ears with beautiful, powerful, and important music, television, and movies over the years. But he is also working passionately to restore rights and gain equality for so many in this nation. John joins Pete to discuss why he won't just "shut up and sing," the fine line between free speech and censorship on social media, and his work with his organization, FreeAmerica, which aims to tackle mass incarceration.

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12/02/20 • 31 min

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The Deciding Decade with Pete Buttigieg - John Legend on broadening the Black experience and criminal justice reform

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Hi, I'm Pete Bodh Jedge and this is the deciding decade.

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The experience of music, playing music, listening, music sharing music is a central part of life for so many of us. Certainly for me, I played piano from an early age, took up guitar as a teenager. I'm no professional, but it's meant a lot to me as a different form of expression, in a different way to respond to the world. Music represen

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