{"id":2441118,"date":"2019-02-27T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=801101"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:59:45","slug":"john-legend-launches-new-docuseries-with-trayvon-martins-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/john-legend-launches-new-docuseries-with-trayvon-martins-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"John Legend Launches New Docuseries With Trayvon Martin\u2019s Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/9888321vW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/john-legend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-legend\" data-tag=\"john-legend\">John Legend<\/a> highlights the activism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/trayvon-martin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trayvon-martin\" data-tag=\"trayvon-martin\">Trayvon Martin<\/a>\u2019s mother, Sybrina Fulton, in the first episode of his new mini-series <em>Can\u2019t Just Preach<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The clip arrives nearly seven years to the day after Martin was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida. In the clip, Fulton discusses how her son\u2019s wrongful death pushed her to found the Trayvon Martin Foundation; the episode\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LjmiBfC2m-Q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube page<\/a> serves as a fundraising tool for the foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why I do this movement and I feel like I have to do what I\u2019m doing is because my son, Trayvon, is not here to speak for himself,\u201d Fulton says. \u201cSo I speak for all the Trayvon Martins, I speak for my son, I speak for your son, I speak for America. I have to fight, I have to fight for the people that cannot fight themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Can\u2019t Just Preach<\/em> will boast five episodes and each installment will highlight a different activist: Jaclyn Corin, a Parkland survivor and March for Our Lives co-founder; Desmond Meade, the executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition; Isa Noyola, deputy director of Mijente and Mijente Support Committee; and Efr\u00e9n C. Olivares, director of the racial and economic justice program at the Texas Civil Rights Project.<\/p>\n<p>Episodes will also serve as fundraisers for the specific organizations that each activist works with. <em>Can\u2019t Just Preach<\/em> arrives in the wake of Legend\u2019s new song, \u201cPreach,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-preach-video-795346\/\">music video<\/a> for which also doubled as a fundraising opportunity for <a href=\"https:\/\/letsfreeamerica.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">FreeAmerica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/john-legend-cant-just-preach-trayvon-martin-801101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Legend highlights the activism of Trayvon Martin\u2019s mother, Sybrina Fulton, in the first episode of his new mini-series Can\u2019t Just Preach. The clip arrives nearly seven years to the day after Martin was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida. In the clip, Fulton discusses how her son\u2019s wrongful death pushed her to found the Trayvon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:39:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}