Janelle Monáe-March Against the Abuse of Power-Women’s March 2018

@JanelleMonae @WomensMarch #DirtyComputer #Not4Profit #America #History #Podcast #Motivational #Education #PowerToThePolls #TogetherWeRise #Enough #WomensMarch2018 As uplifting and important a collective moment as Saturday's (Jan. 21) global Women's Marches were, and as much as they may have ignited a cultural and political movement, there may have been no more poignant and powerful a moment than when Janelle MonáeI took the stage with the mothers of slain African Americans whose lives were unjustly taken by police to perform her powerful anthem "Hell You Talmbout” In her speech at the main Women's March in Washington, D.C., Monáe acknowledged a debt to both her grandmother, a sharecropper from Aberdeen, Miss. and her mother, a janitor, while saying how honored she felt to be there. Monáe, who most recently gave two award-worthy performances in critically-acclaimed films, Hidden Figures and Moonlight, said she was here to march against the abuse of power. And then her band took the stage and seemed to light it on fire. With a booming, all-female drum and percussionist group and backup singers that included her Wandaland label mate Jedenna (of "Classic Man" fame), Monáe explained the call-and-response rhythm of her police brutality anthem "Hell You Talmbout." Here, she began bu repeating the name Sandra Bland, a a 28-year-old black woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July, 13 2015, while the crowd and back up singers responded with "Say my name!" Denver’s 2018 Women’s March Thousands of people of all ages, races and genders poured into Civic Center park Saturday morning for Denver’s 2018 Women’s March, propelled by a year of social and political tumult that many of them hope to calm at the ballot box. Video by Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post https://youtu.be/dWLm-r1IQdY Read the story: http://dpo.st/2BgA6Pa Public Access America PublicAccessPod Productions #America #History #Podcast #Education #Not4Profit Footage downloaded and edited by PublicAccessPod Podcast Link Review us Stitcher: http://goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: https://goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: https://goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube https://goo.gl/xrKbJbAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy