John Boyega Joins Celebrities Turning Out For Protests

Fellow Brit Harry Styles marched in Los Angeles this week and was photographed carrying a sign that read “Black Lives Matter,” and kneeling with demonstrators. 

Singer Ariana Grande also took part in a Los Angeles protest Saturday, wearing a mask and carrying a sign emblazoned with “Black Lives Matter,” before encouraging her nearly 75 million Twitter followers to stay engaged and active in peaceful protests.

Actor and singer Jamie Foxx took the stage at San Francisco City Hall on Monday and encouraged his “Hollywood friends” to get involved in the protest movement.

Rapper and Masked Singer host Nick Cannon traveled to Minneapolis to protest where Floyd died. In a piece for Variety, he wrote, “I needed to see the people in that community—how much love they had for their community and their people and how much pain this has caused.”

Former Disney star and current Riverdale lead Cole Sprouse was arrested after protesting in Santa Monica on Sunday, after which he told fans via an Instagram post, “it needs to be stated that as a straight white man, and a public figure, the institutional consequences of my detainment are nothing in comparison to others within the movement.”

Westworld star Tessa Thompson documented her experience at a Los Angeles protest Saturday for fans through Twitter and Instagram posts, while singers Halsey and Yungblud were spotted by fans over the weekend at protests in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California, treating protesters’ rubber bullet wounds. 

Legendary Houston rapper Bun B teamed up with fellow rapper Trae The Truth, who knew Floyd personally growing up in Houston, to join Floyd’s family in a march through the city Tuesday that Mayor Sylvester Turner said drew 60,000 people.