{"id":2836,"date":"2014-11-12T13:48:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2015-06-18T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:46:57","slug":"alicia-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/alicia-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Keys calls for movement-building, not just social justice tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, musician Alicia Keys wrote a <a href=\" http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/nov\/11\/alicia-keys-tweeting-social-injustice-musicians\">piece for <i>The Guardian<\/i><\/a> describing the motivation behind her activism and calling musicians to use their platforms for true movement-building. Describing how motherhood has fueled her awareness of social injustices, Keys writes, &#8220;A woman becomes a lioness when she sees her unborn child&#8217;s future juxtaposed with the horrors of the world.&#8221; Recently, Keys went out in the streets to protest outside the Nigerian consulate in New York for the six-month anniversary of Boko Haram&#8217;s abduction of Nigerian girls. We were also excited to see Keys bring attention to racial disparities in the criminal justice system as an issue she cares about. She even used <a href=\" http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/graphs\/raceinc.html\"> our data<\/a>! We hope that other musicians will join Alicia Keys and move beyond social justice tweets to getting into the thick of the movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Alicia Keys calls for movement-building and uses PPI data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}