Seven songs to mourn seven black men
Joel Thompson is the composer behind Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, a piece of music mourning black men killed by police and authority figures.
In the aftermath of a highly-publicised killing of an African American man by police in 2014, composer Joel Thompson started channelling his anger and sadness into music. He began setting the last words of seven black men, killed by police and authority figures in America, to music in a complex choral arrangement. The result was a composition called Seven Last Words of the Unarmed. He spoke to Outlook's Emily Webb.
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