The two-day festival will be happening on September 2-3 at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Advertisement
Jay Z has currently been expanding his resume as a producer. The entrepreneur, alongside The Weinstein Company, released TIME: The Kalief Browder Story, a documentary series shown on Spike TV, back in January of this year.
"I believe this young man, his story, will save a lot of lives," Jay Z said in regards to the Kalief Browder series. "What was done to him was a huge injustice and I think people will see his story and realize, man, this is going on. This is not like one case that happened. This is happening a lot for people – especially where I come from in the boroughs and the Marcy Projects and the Bronx and Brooklyn and all these places."
The two books are Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It, written by attorney Lisa Bloom, and Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin, which was authored by Trayvon’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.