Common and John Legend win Best Song Oscar for Glory

Murray Stassen

Common and John Legend (Lonnie Lynn and John Stephens) won the Best Song award for Glory at last night’s Oscars at the Hollywood Bowl.

The song was written for Ava DuVernay’s Selma, which documents the Martin Luther King, Jr.-led voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

Said Legend: “We wrote this song for a film that was based on events that were fifty years ago, but we say that ‘Selma is now’ because the struggle for justice is ...

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