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Fiona Apple’s First New Song in Five Years, ‘Pretrial (Let Her Go Home),’ Spotlights Jailed Mothers Who Can’t Afford Bail
Fiona Apple's first new song in five years, 'Pretrial (Let Her Go Home),' spotlights mothers who can't afford bail, especially Black women.
For the past five years, I have been volunteering with the Free Black Mamas DMV bailout, and I have been lucky to be able to witness the stories of women who fought for and won their freedom with the tireless and loving support of the leadership. The video for the song, produced by Zealous and Special Operations Studio, features the stories of women who have been separated from their families due to not being able to make bail, often with devastating results on school-aged children or elderly parents they were the sole caretakers for. Some of the women are portrayed as disappearing from the frame of images from happier times, as their confinement leads to what a press announcement calls “a downward spiral of lost wages, unpaid rent, custody loss and crushing shame.”
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