Pusha T Fights for Prison Reform in New PSA
By Kevin Lozano.
Pusha T stars in a new PSA that is advocating for prison reform. The video depicts Pusha reading the story of Norman Brown, a former inmate who spent a large portion of his adult life in jail due to mandatory minimum sentencing. The PSA was made in collaboration with ECCO (The Entertainment Consortium Collaborative Outreach Program) and produced by Fictionless for their MySentence campaign, which fights against minimum sentencing. Brown’s sentence was commuted by President Obama in 2015 according to a press release. Watch Pusha’s PSA below, and check out other videos in the MySentence campaign here.
Earlier this year, Pusha was among a group of artists who met with President Obama to discuss “My Brother's Keeper,” an initiative started to create support programs to help young men of color fight the inequalities created by racial injustice. Last month, Pusha also appeared in a PSA supporting marijuana legalization via California’s Proposition 64. Yesterday, Kendrick Lamar praised Obama’s opening of the White House to hip-hop artists in a recent interview.
Pusha’s last album was 2016’s Darkest Before Dawn. Revisit our “Update” interview with Pusha T.
This story originally appeared on Pitchfork.
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