Rage Against the Machine have teamed up with The Ummah Chroma (an international artists’ collective meaning ‘community of colour’) for a new 15-minute documentary, Killing In Thy Name. As well as being soundtracked by Rage’s classic ’90s single Killing In The Name, this short film takes aim as “a fire escape from the fiction known as whiteness and a spring for discovery”, with archive interview footage from the band members as well as a teacher educating students about racial history in America. “Living in the States, you’re living in one of the most brutal societies in the history of the world,” frontman Zack de la Rocha says. “The country who inherited the genocide of the Native American people. A country which participated in slavery. Read th...
