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Beyoncé, Chance the Rapper, Rihanna recount 23 ordinary actions that have gotten black Americans killed
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Alicia Keys (http://mashable.com/category/alicia-keys/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)and the We Are Here movement (http://weareheremovement.com/) gathered a crew of celebrities including Pharrell (http://mashable.com/category/Pharrell/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Queen Latifah (http://mashable.com/category/Queen-Latifah/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), Kevin Hart (http://mashable.com/category/kevin-hart/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) to recite 23 everyday activities that 23 victims of police shootings were doing before their deaths.*

Journalist Jamilah King wrote the article that inspired the video collaboration with Mic, "23 Everyday Actions Punishable by Death if You're Black in America (https://mic.com/articles/147878/23-everyday-actions-punishable-by-death-if-you-re-black-in-america)," following the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile (http://mashable.com/category/Philando-castile/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) on July 6.*

"I did this to prove a point: There is a tax on black life in America, and we are better than this," King wrote.*

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