Haviah Mighty discusses her BLM-inspired new song “Protest,” her first demonstration, and her new album, ‘Stock Exchange.’
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“The writing process came very much around the time of the George Floyd murder,” Mighty adds. “When that happened, some of these conversations felt and looked very different, because we were in a pandemic and everyone was home. I had never seen the discussion picking up that way in my lifetime. It inspired me to think about it from different perspectives. I was inspired to go to my first protest and see what that energy felt like in real life and contribute to that energy.
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