NEW YORK (AP) — Erykah Badu is answering a phone call: her new eyeglasses are ready, and the frames are available for pick-up when she has time.
"I figured you'd probably been busy," the guy from the optical shop says.
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Hip-Hop Stars Rally for Jena Six
NEW YORK (AP) -- When the latest call for a protest over Jena Six came, it wasn't led by Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, but rapper-actor Mos Def.
Mos Def sent out a viral video urging students to walk out of classrooms nationwide this week in protest of the prosecution of six black teens _ initially charged with attempted murder _ in the beating a white classmate in Jena, La.
And Mos Def is not the only member of the hip-hop community speaking out in this racially charged case.