Each video is set to an instrumental track of “Impeach the President” by the 1970s funk band The Honey Drippers, and each participant challenges two of their fellow lyricists. The challenge is designed to push back against falsehoods told by Donald Trump and to engage a group that has had a “justifiably uneasy relationship with electoral politics”—that is, hip-hop makers and their descendants, who are primarily Black and who have been most impacted by the electoral college system of government. – https://www.45lies2020.com/about As of this writing, 45lies2020.com and the corresponding Instagram account have 15 videos posted, with artists from Black Thought, Daveed Diggs, and Rafal Casal to authors Sonya Renee Taylor (The Body is Not an Apology), Bassey Ikpi (I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying), and Jason Reynolds (Long Way Down). Joseph’s original post states: A post shared by @ 45lies2020 on Sep 30, 2020 at 9:07am PDT The stated goal is to create 45 videos, but depending how the challenge progresses, we may see many more. – Marc Bamuthi Joseph A post shared by @ 45lies2020 on Sep 30, 2020 at 4:36pm PDT Check out other examples of literary activism here.
