The release of "Spiritual" came just a few hours after Jay Z's wife, Beyoncé, released her own call to action in the wake of Sterling and Castile's murders. Titled "Freedom," after her song of the same name with Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé wrote, "We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities. It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they 'stop killing us.' We don't need sympathy. We need everyone to respect our lives. We're going to stand up as a community and fight against anyone who believes that murder or any violent action by those who are sworn to protect us should consistently go unpunished. These robberies of lives make us feel helpless and hopeless but we have to believe that we are fighting for the rights of the next generation, for the next young men and women who believe in good. This is a human right. No matter your race, gender or sexual orientation. This is a fight for anyone who feels marginalized, who is struggling for freedom and human rights. This is not a plea to all police officers but toward any human being who fails to value life. The war on people of color and all minorities needs to be over. Fear is not an excuse. Hate will not win." 
 
 "We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action. We must use our voices to contact the politicians and legislators in our districts and demand social and judicial changes," Beyoncé, 34, continued. "While we pray for the families of Alton Sterling and Philander Castile, we will also pray for an end to this plague of injustice in our communities. We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action. We must use our voices to contact the politicians and legislators in our districts and demand social and judicial changes." 
 
 The singer ended her letter by sharing links to help people contact their local congressman or congresswoman, as well as to voice protest for Sterling and Castile's homicides. 
 
 Beyoncé later paused during her concert in Glasgow to honor the innocent lives lost to police brutality. After she performed "Freedom" a cappella, she and her dancers held a moment of silence in front of a screen that listed many of the hundreds of victims' names. Sterling and Castile's names appeared at the top; the words "and countless others" appeared at the bottom. ||||| Beyonce Salutes Sterling & Castile in Concert 
 
 Beyonce stopped her concert in Scotland for a moment of silence in honor of the most recent alleged victims of police brutality ... before launching into her song, "Freedom." 
 
 She told the crowd in Glasgow, "Please join me in a moment of silence to acknowledge the lives of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile." The screen behind her had the names of dozens of other victims. 
 
 Her powerful tribute came several hours before the violence erupted in Dallas Thursday night.
– Jay Z responded to the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile Thursday night with the release of an emotional new song, "Spiritual," decrying police brutality, E! reports. "Yeah, I am not poison, no I am not poison / Just a boy from the hood that / Got my hands in the air / In despair don't shoot," he raps on the track. As he explained in a post on Tidal's Twitter account, he actually started the song a while ago. "Punch (TDE) told me I should drop it when Mike Brown died, sadly I told him, 'this issue will always be relevant.' I'm hurt that I knew his death wouldn't be the last." Meanwhile, his wife, who had earlier called the killings of Sterling and Castile a "war," offered up a tribute to them at her concert in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday night. Beyonce asked the crowd to join her in a moment of silence for the men and dozens of other victims whose names flashed on a screen behind her, TMZ reports, then launched into her song "Freedom." The gossip site notes that the tribute happened hours before five police officers were murdered in Dallas.