00:00Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome John Legend.
00:38From Chicago's own Donny Hathaway.
00:43Hey, hang on to the world as it spins around.
00:56Just don't let the spin get you down, things are moving fast, hold on tight and you will
01:20keep your self-respect, your manly pride.
01:32Get yourself and give, keep your strife.
01:43Never mind your fears, Friday days will soon be here, take it from me, someday we'll all
02:01be free.
02:14Keep on walking tall, hold your head up high.
02:25Lay your dreams right out to the sky.
02:37Sing your greatest song.
02:43You keep going, going, I take it from me, someday we'll all be free.
02:59Hey, just wait and see, someday we'll all be free.
03:08Yeah, from me someday we'll all be free.
03:20And it won't be long, take it from me, someday we'll all be free.
03:34Yeah.
03:44Thank you so much.
03:46It's so good to be here on the south side of Chicago.
03:53The first time I met President Obama, he was Senator Obama.
03:58We met in his office almost 20 years ago.
04:04And he was contemplating running for president.
04:07I told him, if you need anything from us, just let us know.
04:10We'll be glad to help out and help out we did.
04:15We were so grateful to be a part of this entire journey from the beginning.
04:19So grateful to see this beautiful facility here honoring all the work that the Obamas did,
04:27but that all of us did together.
04:29We're so grateful for this opportunity.
04:34And we've got some more amazing Chicagoans to come to the stage.
04:39Please welcome this incredible choir, United Voices of Chicago.
04:53Here we go.
04:57That first song was John Legend singing Someday We'll All Be Free by Johnny Hathaway.
05:04A series of incredible musical performances, Jacob, a drive toward hope.
05:10A drive toward hope.
05:12And Alicia and Nnamdi, to watch this together, to listen to John Legend,
05:17to think about the last time I was on the streets of this city in October of 2025.
05:22What was happening here?
05:23Donald Trump's heavily armed ICE agents were parading through the streets.
05:28Greg Bovino.
05:28This could not be a clearer, more pronounced juxtaposition filled with hope.
05:35And what Barack Obama brought to everyone when he won the election in 2008,
05:40in that moving, moving moment, that special evening,
05:44just miles away from where we're sitting today.
05:47Let's take a listen to John Legend.
05:49The movement is a rhythm to us.
05:54Freedom is like religion to us.
05:57Justice is juxtapositioning us.
06:00Justice for all just ain't specific enough.
06:03One son died, his spirit is revisiting us.
06:06True and living, living in us. Resistance is us.
06:09That's why Rosa sat on the bus.
06:11That's why we walk through Chi-town with our hands up.
06:14When it go down, we woman and man up.
06:17They say stay down, and we stand up.
06:20Shots be on the ground, the camera fanned up.
06:23King pointed to the mountain top, and we ran up.
06:26One day.
06:27One day.
06:28When the glory comes.
06:30When the glory comes.
06:31It will be ours.
06:33It's ours.
06:34It will be ours.
06:35The glory is ours, Chicago.
06:38One day.
06:39America.
06:40When the war is won.
06:42The world.
06:43We will be sure.
06:45So sure.
06:45We will be sure.
06:48Oh, oh, oh.
06:52Glory.
06:54Glory.
06:54Oh, oh, oh, oh.
06:56Glory.
06:58Glory.
07:00Now the war is not over.
07:03Victory isn't won.
07:06Victory isn't won.
07:06But we'll fight on to the finish.
07:09And when it's all done.
07:11We'll cry.
07:13Glory.
07:14Oh, glory.
07:19Glory.
07:21Glory.
07:23Glory.
07:23We'll cry.
07:24Glory.
07:26Oh, oh, oh.
07:27Glory.
07:29Oh, oh, oh.
07:30Glory.
07:31Oh, oh, oh.
07:31Yes.
07:33Glory.
07:35Sell this now for every man, woman, and child.
07:38Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd.
07:41They marched with the torch.
07:42We gon' run with it now.
07:44Never looked back.
07:45We done gone hundreds of miles.
07:47From dark roads.
07:48Heroes to become a hero.
07:50Facing a league of justice.
07:51His power was the people.
07:53Enemy is lethal.
07:54A king became regal.
07:56Saw the face of Jim Crow under a bald eagle.
07:58The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful.
08:01We sing.
08:02Our music is the cuts that we bleed through.
08:05Somewhere in a dream he had an epiphany.
08:08Now we right the wrongs in history.
08:10No one can win a war individually.
08:12It takes the wisdom of the elders.
08:15Young people's energy.
08:16Welcome to the story we call victory.
08:19The coming of the Lord.
08:20My eyes have seen the glory.
08:22One day.
08:23One day.
08:24One day.
08:24One day.
08:25When the glory comes.
08:26One day.
08:27It will be ours.
08:29It's ours.
08:29It will be ours.
08:31It's ours.
08:32It's ours.
08:32It's ours.
08:33One day.
08:34The Obama center.
08:36When the war is won.
08:38War, yes.
08:38We will be sure.
08:40So sure.
08:41We will be sure.
08:43To God be glory.
08:45Glory.
08:47We fight, brother.
08:48Glory.
08:49We love, brother.
08:51Glory.
08:52We hope, brother.
08:54Glory.
08:55Obama centers, brother.
08:58It's peace, brother.
09:00Glory.
09:01Shot down this, brother.
09:03Glory.
09:04Uniting voices.
09:06Glory.
09:06Glory.
09:07When the war.
09:09Glory.
09:10Is won.
09:11Glory.
09:13When it's all.
09:15Glory.
09:16Said and done.
09:17Glory.
09:18Said and done.
09:19We'll cry.
09:20Glory.
09:23Glory.
09:24Oh, glory.
09:28Oh, glory.
09:29Oh, glory.
09:29Oh, glory.
09:30Oh, glory.
09:36Well, glory.
09:39Good job.
09:40Good job.
09:42Thank you, Sarah.
09:44Thank you, Sarah.
09:45Thank you, Sarah.
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