Alicia Keys Sings About Love and Equality at VMAs

Alicia Keys took the VMAs stage tonight to present the award for Best Male Video and on the 53rd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream Speech,” she used her time to talk and sing about equality and love, saying “I still believe” in what the speech stood for.

.@aliciakeys shares a poem on the #VMA stage in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech https://t.co/qpaY4415xT

— MTV (@MTV) August 29, 2016

She recited and sang a poem which got a huge standing ovation. Watch the video above.

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