best original song oscar winner from 2014's selma

The Best Original Song Oscar winner connected to 2014’s Selma is “Glory” , written and performed by Common (Lonnie Lynn) and John Legend (John Stephens).

“Glory” serves as the powerful end-credits theme for Selma , directly addressing the civil rights struggle depicted in the film and linking it to contemporary movements for racial justice. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 87th Oscars, where Common and John Legend performed it onstage with a recreation of Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge before accepting the award.