Dwayne Johnson, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus get Global Goal: Unite for Our Future concert going – USA TODAY
"The year 2020 has come to be a defining period that has impacted all of us around the world in ways we could have never imagined, host Dwayne Johnson said, explaining the intertwined forces that inspired Saturday's "Global Goal: Unite for Our Future – The Concert": coronavirus and systemic racism.
"As we're doing our very best to process the unprecedented hardships this new virus can cause, we also continue to witness another ongoing disease that plagues our world for decades – centuries even: oppression and inequality," Johnson said, calling George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer a "flashpoint."
He continued, "In the face of both of these ongoing fights, we must recognize that the people living in poverty are the ones whose health is at greatest risk. It'...