Talib Kweli had a lot on his mind when he Zoomed into The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (June 3) from the studio to chat with his old pal Jimmy Fallon.
When the host jumped right in and asked the activist/rapper why the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer and the subsequent nationwide protests are different from other mass mobilizations after previous police-involved killings of black and brown men and women, Kweli took it all the way back to the Civil War.
He talked about the failed promise of 40 Acres and a Mule for freed black slaves, fast-forwarding to today, when "young people of color, young marginalized people have been trapped in the house because of the COVID [19] lockdown," kept away form