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Mavis Staples releases new video for Black History Month
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 14 February 2018
Legendary soul singer Mavis Staples has released a video for the title track of her 2017 album ‘If All I Was Was Black’, to mark Black History Month.
The video’s director Zac Manuel says: “In 2017 I watched as all the Confederate monuments came down in New Orleans, but the conversation never arose as to what would replace them”.
“This video imagines a reality where we venerate people who are truly deserving of being immortalised in public spaces”, he continues. “A reality in which black people can be proud to see themselves on pedestals in the air, cast in iron and stone. The intent of this video is to highlight black excellence, and to provoke and encourage a larger public appreciation of the labour – physical and emotional – the people of colour often are expected to bear”.
Staples is set to play two nights at London Union Chapel on 9-10 Jul. Watch the video for ‘If All I Was Was Black’ here:
