Hong Kong was abuzz yesterday after the city got an expected mention during an Academy Award acceptance speech.
Rapper Common, who along with singer John Legend, won the Oscar for Best Original Song for “Glory”, from the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic “Selma”.
During his speech, Common compared demonstrators marching for freedom of expression in France and those protesting for democracy in Hong Kong to American civil rights activists.
Watch a clip from his speech above.
