SPIN https://www.spin.com Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:23:49 +0000 en-US https://assets.spin.com/wp-content/themes/spin/assets/images/spin-logo_feed.png SPINSaul Williams on the Baltimore Riots: ‘We Had a Growing List of Young Martyrs’ – SPIN https://www.spin.com 125 40 Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More hourly 1 Saul Williams on the Baltimore Riots: ‘We Had a Growing List of Young Martyrs’ https://www.spin.com/2015/05/saul-williams-baltimore-riots/ https://www.spin.com/2015/05/saul-williams-baltimore-riots/#comments Tue, 05 May 2015 16:00:19 +0000 http://www.spin.com/?p=142602 Poet, activist, and musician Saul Williams, who recently wrote an essay in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, has penned an op-ed for SPIN about the Baltimore riots surrounding Freddie Gray's death while in police custody. Below, read a surreal meditation from his Martyr Loser Kingdom (which, you may have noticed, is abbreviated as M.L.K.) tour — and, in this… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2015/05/saul-williams-baltimore-riots/feed/ 6