Watch Global Citizen Festival

On September 26, 2015, Central Park in New York City was host to the fifth annual Global Citizen Festival, a music event aimed to raise awareness and fight extreme poverty. MSNBC was one of the networks that broadcasted the festival, which gathered around 60,000 people in the park and millions more around the world tuning in online to watch and engage.

The festival was organized by Global Citizen, a movement that seeks to end extreme poverty by 2030 and tackle other global issues such as climate change, gender equality, and access to education and healthcare. The organization relies on advocacy and activism to put pressure on world leaders to take action and make commitments towards these goals. Through a combination of online activism, petitioning, and in-person actions at events like the Global Citizen Festival, the movement has been able to secure several commitments from governments, corporations, and philanthropists to invest in programs that fight poverty and inequality.

The festival featured a diverse lineup of artists and entertainers from different genres and backgrounds, all of them sharing the stage with Global Citizen ambassadors and representatives of the organization. Some of the headliners of the 2015 festival included Beyonc