Common and John Legend / David 2015, John Legend came one step closer to EGOT status when he and Common won an Oscar for “Glory,” the theme song they wrote for the civil rights film Selma.

Directed by Ava DuVernay, the film looks back at Martin Luther King, Jr. as he led the Selma to Montgomery march, which was sparked by the 1965 killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a civil rights activist.

DuVernay tapped Common and John Legend to write the theme song for the film.

During the evening concert series of the 2020 Essence Festival of Culture, John Legend and Common reunited and performed the song with the same urgency in support of Black Lives Matter.

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