I’m so inspired watching people marching in these streets, for people marching in Selma, marching in Ferguson, trying to get more free.” Juneteenth commemorates that they were always meant to be free, but in this nation, they weren’t. “There are several moments you can call emancipation days for Black America. “I feel like everyone’s learning right now,” Legend said later in the show, about the day when the last slaves in the U.S. When he sat at dueling pianos with his friend Alicia Keys on Friday afternoon - not coincidentally, on the Black American holiday of Juneteenth - the two began not with taunts, but a shared cover of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” ![]() The livestreamed songwriter showdown series Verzuz is typically full of good-natured boasting and roasting of opponents, but John Legend couldn’t help but turn his into a duet.
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