JULY 16TH, 2015
JULY 16TH, 2015
CRY NO MORE
Above is the video for “Cry No More,” a song Rhiannon wrote with her sister Lalenja Harrington in response to this tragedy. She brought together friends and band members to film the video, directed by Harvey Robinson, at the United Congregational Church in her home town of Greensboro, North Carolina.
The massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, is just the latest in a string of racially charged events that have broken my heart. There are a lot of things to fix in this world, but history says if we don’t address this canker, centuries in the making, these things will continue to happen. No matter what level privilege you have, when the system is broken everybody loses. We all have to speak up when injustice happens. No matter what. And music is one of the best ways I know to do so. — Rhiannon Giddens