Courtesy of @tinashe “Silence = violence,” reads a slogan you’re almost guaranteed to find at a protest against white supremacy and police brutality.
And while celebrities have the platforms to speak the loudest, it’s not always for the best. In the week since a white police officer killed an unarmed black man named George Floyd, sparking a nationwide wave of Black Lives Matter protests, some have done more harm than good (see: posting videos of looters’ faces, remixing Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech).
At the same time, a surprising number of celebrities have gone the extra mile in raising awareness and advocating for change.