You might have seen the resurfaced quote over the past few weeks floating around the internet from Will Smith in a 2016 Late Show with Stephen Colbert
interview -- "racism isn't getting worse, it's getting filmed".

On Monday, May 25, 17-year-old Darnella Frazier was taking her nine-year-old cousin to Cup Foods, when she saw George Floyd in a confrontation with police. She pulled out her phone and hit record. She filmed for 10 minutes and nine seconds until the officers and George left the scene, with George on a stretcher.

"She felt she had to document it," Darnella's lawyer Seth Cobin told the BBC. "It's like the civil rights movement was reborn in a whole new way, because of that video."

George Floyd's story and all the events that followed came to the public eye in such a massive way because it was witnessed, recorded and shared. The injustices aren't new, but our ability to record and share injustices is. And it's changing our world.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what "witness" songs do you want to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played

Benjamin Booker - Witness feat. Mavis Staples
Marvin Gaye - Can I Get A Witness
St. Vincent - Digital Witness
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
DeVotchKa - The Clockwise Witness
Handsome Boy Modeling School - Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II) feat. DJ Shadow and DJ Quest
Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind Of Wonderful