Artist: Jamila Woods
Song: “BALDWIN”
Producer: Slot-A
Album: LEGACY! LEGACY!
Director: Vincent Martell
Fresh off releasing her LEGACY! LEGACY! album last month, Jamila Woods is back with a new video for “BALDWIN.” Inspired by James Baldwin’s “Letter to My Nephew,” the song gets a Harry Potter and Hogwarts-themed visual set at a school on the South Side of Chicago.
“To outsiders, the school appears to be abandoned—one of the 50 public schools closed under Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s watch in 2013,” Jamila says. “However, for Black people in the neighborhood this space is a gem, an oasis of Black learning and radical education for young people. We shot part of the film documentary-style, to include young people’s perspectives on what they would want their dream school to be like.”