Political rock band Rage Against The Machine (RATM) has partnered with an international artists' collective The Ummah Chroma (Terence Nance, Jenn Nkiru, Marc Thomas, Kamasi Washington, Bradford Young) to direct a short film breaking down the lyrics of their 1991 protest song "Killing in the Name".

Killing In Thy Name is a fifteen-minute documentary, edited by Stefani Saintonge, on America's history of oppression and injustice. The film begins with the statement: "Our aim is for this piece to be a fire escape from the fiction known as whiteness and a spring for discovery." 

Rage Against The Machine's nineties anthem cuts between footage of a teacher schooling a group of white children on the roots of white supremacy and its ever-present legacy and quotes from leading political thinkers. 

“Any society or any government or any system that is set up solely to profit a wealthy class while the majority of the people toil and suffer and sell their labor power," says RATM frontman Zack de la Rocha in an archival interview, "so long as that system’s only true motive is profit interest and not the maintenance and the betterment of the population, to meeting human needs, then that society should not stand. It should be challenged and questioned and overthrown.”