Michael Kiwanuka has shared the video for “Hero,” the latest single from his forthcoming album Kiwanuka, out November 1st.
The song and visual, directed by Cc Wade, both pay homage to leaders and important figures of the Civil Rights movement in America, particularly the Black Panthers and Black Power movement. References to Fred Hampton, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, JFK, Sam Cooke, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Tupac and more crop up in the clip.
The plot is also loosely based around Cointelpro, the covert FBI program throughout the Fifties, Sixties...
The song and visual, directed by Cc Wade, both pay homage to leaders and important figures of the Civil Rights movement in America, particularly the Black Panthers and Black Power movement. References to Fred Hampton, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, JFK, Sam Cooke, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Tupac and more crop up in the clip.
The plot is also loosely based around Cointelpro, the covert FBI program throughout the Fifties, Sixties...
- 10/15/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
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