Howie Mandel’s Golden Buzzer act Brandon Leake performed a powerful Black Lives Matter poem during Tuesday’s fourth and final round of “America’s Got Talent” live quarter-finals.
Leake, who is the show’s first-ever spoken-word poet to compete, referenced the lives of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Jacob Blake during his performance. “Normally death don’t really bother me, I’m from southside Stockton,” he recited. “I’m all too familiar with how some family reunions only ever take place on graveyard grass, and a hole can be a safe haven for a soul in this mortal game of hide and go seek.
But, there is something so different about Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, and the countless others.” RELATED:
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