Sadé Powell

By Sadé PowellContributor Fri., June 26, 2020timer4 min. read In the last few weeks people across the world hit the pavement in protest demanding justice for George Floyd who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer. As the streets flooded with streams of protesters, the fight online has been just as formidable and the Black Lives Matter movement received support from a seemingly unlikely ally: K-pop stans.

In one of my diaries from high school there’s a page titled Bucket List. Most people have one. It might be in the form of a vision board or just a mental note to achieve something great next year, in the next 10 years or before they die. For me “run a marathon” is scribbled in as objective number 27. At the oh-so precious age of 15 I had no comprehension of what a marathon was. You run for a long time, it’s hard to do and it’s considered a huge accomplishment, I thought to myself.

Dallas, Texas-native Lucy Clubhouse is 1,000 miles from home on stage looking out at a packed arena at the 2018 Battle of the Beat Makers competition in Toronto. The audience is cheering her name and her mother has just run on stage, a huge smile on her face, to give her a hug. Behind her three esteemed American producers, Just Blaze, !llmind and Mannie Fresh grace her with a standing ovation.