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WATCH LIVE: The #GlobalCitizen Festival, featuring performances by Janet Jackson, Cardi B and more! nbcnews.to/2y0tOnd

LIVE: #GlobalCitizen @MSNBC pre-show featuring @JoyAnnReid, @chrislhayes, @AriMelber, @WatchSavannah and @jacobsoboroff nbcnews.to/2y0tOnd

John Legend shares why he's a #GlobalCitizen, working in criminal justice:

"This is not an abstract problem. This is not a problem that's just statistics to me. This is something that's real and that we've experienced in our own family."

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WATCH LIVE: The 2018 #GlobalCitizen Festival starts now! nbcnews.to/2y0tOnd

LIVE NOW: Janelle Monáe performs at #GlobalCitizen Festival nbcnews.to/2y0tOnd

WATCH: Janelle Monáe sends message to survivors of sexual violence:

“We hear you. We see you. We support you. We believe you.”

WATCH: Robert DeNiro advocates for voter registration at #GlobalCitizen Festival:

"Voting is how we hire and we fire our leaders. Guess what? They're not our bosses. We are their bosses." nbcnews.com/globalcitizen

LIVE NOW: John Legend performs at #GlobalCitizen Festival. nbcnews.to/2y0tOnd

WATCH: Robert DeNiro encourages people to vote at #GlobalCitizen Festival: "You are the bosses." nbcnews.to/2IvnpFD

WATCH: Janelle Monae to survivors of sexual violence:

"I hear you, I see you and I believe you." nbcnews.to/2xZUrbL

WATCH: @LesterHoltNBC is on the #GlobalCitizen stage encouraging audience members to recycle their plastic bottles to make the festival a zero-waste event. nbcnews.com/globalcitizen

@LesterHoltNBC LIVE NOW: Shawn Mendes performs at #GlobalCitizen Festival. nbcnews.to/2y0tOnd

NOW: Shawn Mendes and John Legend perform together at #GlobalCitizen Festival.

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NOW: Keala Settle and the NYC Gay Men's Chorus perform "This Is Me" at #GlobalCitizen Festival.

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WATCH: John Legend performs "All of Me" at #GlobalCitizen Festival. nbcnews.to/2xHPIfJ

NOW: Sen. Jeff Flake and Sen. Chris Coons take the stage at #GlobalCitizen Festival.

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WATCH: Sen. Flake encourages voters to "keep calling" their elected officials at #GlobalCitizen Festival:

"Feel free to join me in an elevator any time," Sen. Flake says after being confronted by a sexual assault survivor in an elevator Friday before the vote on Judge Kavanaugh.

NOW: Cardi B performs at #GlobalCitizen Festival.

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WATCH: Cardi B and fmr. First Lady Michelle Obama encourage young people to vote at #GlobalCitizen Festival. nbcnews.com/globalcitizen

Sen. Jeff Flake joins Sen. Chris Coons on stage at the #GlobalCitizen Festival to express their support for bipartisan leadership on foreign aid. nbcnews.to/2OmhwQl