US musician Jay-Z, along with lawyers, activists and victims of police violence, have taken out full-page advertisements in newspapers across the United States in memory of George Floyd, an African-American man who died in police custody.
The advertisement, which was posted on the Instagram account of Jay-Z's philanthropic project Roc Nation, is captioned, "In dedication to George Floyd."
It features an excerpt from a speech by the black civil rights activist Martin Luther King in 1965.
The speech echoes the civil rights mantra "a man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right," spoken in the wake of the Bloody Sunday Protests, where police beat protesters in Alabama.
The advertisement quotes the following statement made by Martin Luther King, "We're going to stand up amid tear gas! We're going to stand up amid anything they can muster up, letting the world know that we are determined to be free!".
CNN reports that the advertisement is featured in the Tuesday editions of The New York Times, The Denver Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Austin American Statement, The Orlando Sentinel and The Atlanta Journal Constitution and several other newspapers.
According to CNN, more should appear on Wednesday.
Widespread protests and reports of after-dark riots and looting have sprung up across the country in response to Floyd's death from asphyxiation on May 26 after a policeman knelt on his neck.
