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Playlist: Celebrate Black Music Month With New Releases From Black Indie Artists

[metaslider id=14909] Playlist: Celebrate Black Music Month With New Releases From Black Indie Artists While Black Music Month was initiated over 40 years ago by President Jimmy Carter, in the current climate here in 2020 it seems even more important to recognize black Americans and black artists around the world for their massive contribution to...

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BET Awards 2020: Public Enemy Deliver Monumental Black Lives Matter Performance with Nas, Rapsody, The Roots, Jahi and YG

BET Awards 2020: Public Enemy Deliver Monumental Black Lives Matter Performance at BET Awards with Nas, Rapsody, The Roots, Jahi and YG Last night’s BET Awards went off like a power keg, partially thanks to the undeniably explosive opening performance by Public Enemy and friends. Nas, Rapsody, Jahi, YG and Black Thought helped Chuck D...

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Bandcamp Donating Juneteenth Proceeds to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: 17 New Releases to Listen and Buy

Bandcamp Support Racial Justice By Donating Juneteenth Proceeds to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Always taking a positive lead in the underground music community, Bandcamp recently made a statement pledging it’s support for racial justice, equality and change, opting to donate 100 % of profits this Juneteenth (and every following Juneteenth) to the NAACP Legal...

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New Gorillaz Song Machine Track ‘Friday 13th’ Feat. Octavian a Beautiful Support Anthem for BLM

New Gorillaz Song Machine Track ‘Friday 13th’ Feat. Octavian a Beautiful Support Anthem for BLM One really has to wonder how quickly Gorillaz are making these Song Machine tracks and animations because they’re becoming more and more poignant and germane to the current times that it almost feels like they can’t have been made too long...

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Industry News: The Music Industry and Other Media Outlets Will Stage a ‘Blackout’ Tuesday

By now, most people in the music industry as well as fans have heard about the music industry’s plans to stage a digital protest, a “blackout” of music and entertainment media in solidarity with the #blacklivesmatter movement and protesters marching about recent events. On May 25, 2020, a video was released of a white police...

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