Jamie Foxx on the Be Woke.Vote set in 2018, in black and white

News · November 2, 2018

Time features Jamie Foxx on Be Woke.Vote’s The Messy Truth with Van Jones

Time featured Jamie Foxx’s conversation with Van Jones for Be Woke.Vote in 2018, on voting, leading by example and what he wants his children to see in a president.

  • Time
  • Jamie Foxx
  • Van Jones
  • The Messy Truth
  • Be Woke.Vote
  • 2018

The story

Jamie Foxx on voting and leading by example

  • 2018
  • The Messy Truth with Van Jones
  • Be Woke.Vote
  • AONE Creative: creative direction
  • By Silas Node, AONE Creative

Jamie Foxx sat down with the CNN commentator Van Jones for The Messy Truth, part of the Be Woke.Vote series, to talk about the importance of voting and leading by example. Time ran the conversation.

Foxx talked about being Black in America and how it disheartened him that his children could not look up to the president. Beyond voting, he said, people should put pressure on those in office to heal the country.

Watch the full episode: Jamie Foxx on The Messy Truth.

Created by Hyper Engine LLC. Directed by Deon Taylor and Omar Joseph. Produced by Roxanne Avent, Heather Kritzer, Darrick Angelone and Omar Joseph. Executive producer Robert F. Smith. Creative direction by Darrick Angelone and AONE.

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The show Time wrote about

AONE Creative led the creative direction of The Messy Truth with Van Jones and Roland Martin Unfiltered and released both as podcasts: audio before the 2018 midterms, then video in 2019. Our Podcast Production and Hosting service makes and publishes shows the same way, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music.

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Jamie Foxx on The Messy Truth

The full conversation plays on its own page, with the eleven other episodes of The Messy Truth with Van Jones.

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