Grammy Award-winning jazz bassist, composer, and singer Esperanza Spalding today released We Are America, a new music video highlighting the injustice of prolonged indefinite detention at the prison at Guantánamo Bay. She discusses her motivations for the project below.

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Esperanza Spalding - We Are America from ESP Media on Vimeo.

Cross-posted from The Blog of Rights.