R. Kelly
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Spotify Reverses Controversial ‘Hateful Conduct’ Ban After Industry Backlash
Spotify has backpedaled on its “hateful conduct” policy, which penalized artists on the streaming platform if they had a history of “controversies.” The policy, which was part of a broader set of guidelines on hate speech and hateful conduct, drew immediate criticism upon its release in May for being too vague. Record label executives, like…
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For Many Moms, ‘Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair’
Media Remind Us of Those Not on Holiday Cards Citizens See Journalists as Powerful in Own Right Critics Target April Ryan After Melania Comment Does ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Apply to Food Media? Philly Responds to Report on Housing Bias N.C. Paper Says Let Public Decide on R. Kelly Dallas to Memorialize 1910 Lynching Victim Congress…
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R. Kelly Gives a Defiant Performance in Midst of North Carolina Protests and #MuteRKelly Campaign
I thought this dude was canceled. Apparently not. And as a recent show in Greensboro, N.C., reveals, R. Kelly is still as nasty as he wanna be, with his fans there to support this accused child sexual predator and woman abuser. The Associated Press reports that the singer told the crowd gathered for his concert…
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Univision Bosses Incompetent, Staffers Write
Critical Report Appears on Own Websites USA Today Has Its First Publisher of Color Sun-Times Wants R. Kelly to ‘Pay the Price’ From Coates: ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ Latest Falsehood: Black Support for Trump Doubled Cox Names Sharon Wilmore Editor in Ohio Elias Lopez Gets International Opinions Post Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Citizens…
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This Is the Remix to Eviction: R. Kelly’s Music Booted From Spotify Playlists
As of Thursday, Spotify listeners will no longer be able to bump—or accidentally bump into—any R. Kelly tracks on the site’s playlists. The move is made possible by a new policy regarding public hate content and hateful conduct, which gives the company the right to choose not to promote artists it feels have caused harm.…
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Hate the Player, Not the Game: On Loving the Art of R. Kelly, Kanye and Cosby
This weekend, while driving with my windows down in 86-degree, sunny springtime weather, my car’s playlist (mostly comedy, hip-hop and old-school R&B) shuffled randomly to a 26-minute story from a 1968 comedy album. As a lover of storytelling, I couldn’t bring myself to hit the skip button as the winding, 26-minute story from the album,…
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Is Time Finally Up for R. Kelly? 2 More Women Come Forward With Sexual Abuse Claims Against the Singer: Report
After Time’s Up, an initiative dedicated to combating sexual abuse and harassment, called for “appropriate investigations and inquiries” into repeated allegations of sexual abuse against Robert “R.” Kelly, two more women have come forward with new claims against the singer. According to BuzzFeed News, which was the first outlet to break the story about R.…
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White America Is ‘Publicly Lynching’ Black Men … but Not Kanye, Cosby or R. Kelly
The hullabaloo about Kanye West’s nonsensical rants, the Bill Cosby conviction and the movement to mute R. Kelly has exposed a clear line of demarcation with two opposing sides. The first side needs no introduction. Anyone reading this has probably seen at least a few of the extensive catalog of think pieces about why Kanye…
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You Can’t Love and Support R. Kelly and Also Love Black Women and Children
For 24 years now (24!), R. Kelly’s behavior has been as essential to his place in the zeitgeist as his music. He married Aaliyah in 1994, which also happened to be my freshman year of high school. The infamous tape was leaked and distributed in 2002, when I was in college. Dave Chappelle’s “Piss on…