ABC/Lorenzo BevilaquaH.E.R. has released a stirring music video for her Judas and the Black Messiah anthem “Fight for You.”
The visual pays homage to the Black Panther Party and their efforts to support and uplift the community, despite government opposition. It opens with a 1971 shooting involving a Black man and a white police officer, with H.E.R. narrating the tragic cycle of violence against Black Americans that has impacted many over decades.
“Last night they killed one of us… again. More fuel to a raging fire you can’t pray away. Not with a gun pointed at your back or the ground at your face,” says H.E.R over footage from the Fred Hampton biopic. “I think