Jay-Z Buys Full-Page Ads Dedicated To George Floyd In Multiple Newspapers

6/3/2020
Alex Heigl
Jay-Z’s Team ROC has taken out a full-page ad dedicated to George Floyd that will be appearing in multiple major newspapers across the country.
 
Captioned “in dedication to George Floyd,” the bulk of the ad is text from a speech made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala., in 1965. “Deep down in our nonviolent creed is the conviction — that there are some things so dear, something so precious, some things so eternally true, that they’re worth dying for,” the quote reads, in part.
 
“We’re going to stand amid anything they can muster up, letting the world know that we are determined to be free,” it concludes.
The letter is signed by the 50-year-old rapper, along with representatives of Botham Jean, DJ Henry and Antwon Rose II — all black men killed in interactions with police — and a variety of advocacy organizations and individuals.
 
It ran in the Tuesday editions of major metropolitan newspapers in cities including New York, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Atlanta, among others. Per CNN, more ads are planned for Wednesday.
 
Jay-Z has been active on multiple activism fronts recently: He was part of a group of stars who signed an open letter published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution demanding justice for Ahmaud Arbery, and pledged $1 million to coronavirus relief efforts in March.
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