“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song

“Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song

“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. He was held in solitary