Big Sean just released the video for his single “One Man Can Change the World” — though the song features John Legend and Kanye West, the video foregoes star appearances in lieu of moving, black-and-white imagery showing the impact of violence on the black community.
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The all-too-timely video, released on Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) and just two days after the massacre that killed nine in Charleston, S.C., shows a young boy who, confronted with the violence he sees in the media and from the people around him (including police in riot gear), takes steps to try to create peace. The video also includes mourners entering a church for a funeral, which is particularly evocative in the wake of this week’s tragedy.
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Big Sean, who stands in as a preacher in the video, made the song and video as a tribute to his late grandmother Mildred V. Leonard, who he credits as his biggest hero. “She was the backbone of the family, for sure,” Sean told VF earlier this year. “She was born in West Virginia, she came up from nothing, she was one of the first female black captains in World War II, and she was a female police officer in Detroit. She was a teacher, and a counselor.”
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