JayZ-Meek🧩

Jun 24 2019, 11:26pm

Figures in the spotlight who are able to find the importance of using their voice to shed awareness on the topics that need exposure the most are the ones that give us hope. Rapper, producer, and record executive Jay-Z is an example of how you can use your impact in the community to also make a change in that community.  He grew tired of being a bystander when he knew he had the voice to be the change he wished to see in the world, he grew tired of watching our black men be apathetically and harshly treated, being punished with no looking back. Being provided with no equality, but instead distinction is something he yearns to fix.

Due to this, he decided to launch a criminal justice reform organization (Reform Alliance) that aims to “change the outdated laws, give people hope, and reform the system.” He stated in an interview earlier this year how he and very known rapper, Meek Mill, want to speak for all the people who feel like they don’t have a voice. They are activists, and in order to be an activist you have to be ready to change the world. Which also means you have to be willing to use such acts to change the lives of the people who are affected the most, and this is exactly what they are doing. Jay Z firstly directed his activist energy toward Meek’s legal situation.

“What started as a sole focus to save my friend from prison has now evolved into a much bigger mission to fix a fundamentally broken system while keeping communities safer.” Therefore he has now extended his branch to focus on much bigger cases like the case of Jabari Tallbot. Roc Nation united forces to get the case dismissed of the 11-year old African American who got arrested for deciding to not stand during the Pledge of Allegiance in his Lawton Chiles Middle classroom. In moments of his mother arriving, she discovered that her son had been handcuffed and placed in a cell by authorities. Due to Jay Z and his team stepping up, along with the assistance of the sixth grader’s legal counsel in Florida, there was a certain sense of awareness that was raised in our minds for eternity.