Gospel singer Yolanda Adams spoke with theGrio’s Cortney M. Wills to discuss what freedom means to her.
“Freedom looks like happiness where you are, knowing that there are so many other places you can go, and you can strive for and ascend to because for years – for eons – as Africans being shipped over here, our ancestors couldn’t do that,” she said.
Check out her full response in the video above.
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