John Legend Hits Us with the Inspiring Melody 'Preach'.

John Legend released a powerful video for his latest single “Preach” on Friday (Feb. 15). 

The visual, which opens with the EGOT winner in bed next to wife Chrissy Tiegen, tackles a multitude of hot-button topics in the often fraught, politically-charged landscape of 2019 including mass shootings, police brutality against unarmed black men and family separation at the U.S. border.

“And heaven knows I’m not helpless/But what can I do?/Can’t see the use in crying/If I’m not even trying to make the change I wanna see,” Legend sings in an abandoned church, urging listeners to shake off the apathy that can so often overwhelm in an era of constant tragedy and fake news.

As the clip reaches its emotional climax, Legend leads a march of religious leaders and protesters while cloaked in a black priest’s robe adorned with a pair of crosses on the shoulders, before being arrested and placed in the back of a squad car.

Courtesy: Billboard.com