T.I. Pens Open Letter to Lloyd’s of London Demanding Reparations for Descendants of African Slaves

John Swinney after receiving her exam results claiming she has been penalised for the school she goes to. Eva Peteranna, 17, says her dreams of being a medic could be at risk after she was given a disappointing set of results.

Meltdown Festival annually, warned last month of a loss of up to 400 jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.Now, staff have highlighted the “brutal” redundancies they face, claims of “institutional racism” and the threat to the future of the organisation in an open letter, which they have called on the public to sign.Amongst the claims are that the redundancies will “disproportionately affect the lowest-paid employees”.The South Bank Centre plans to make 400 of its 577 staff redundant this week,

More than 700 artists, managers and companies in the U.K. music industry, including the likes of The 1975 and Jessie Ware, have signed an open letter calling for a united fight to eradicate racism in the music business and beyond.

Michele Amabile Angermiller More than 700 members of the U.K.

Rolling Stones stars Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Aerosmith rockers Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, and other musicians are demanding politicians seek approval from artists before playing their songs at campaign rallies.An open letter released by the artists demands major U.S.

Green Day, Mick Jagger, Lorde, Blondie and REM have all signed an open letter to prevent the unauthorised use of their music at political rallies.Jagger, who has previously denounced Donald Trump for playing The Rolling Stones at his rallies, joined forces with the extensive list of artists and the Artists Rights Alliance (ARA) ahead of the US elections.In an open letter penned by the ARA, they demand that the major US national political party committees “establish clear policies requiring

coronavirus pandemic.The 350-capacity venue is set to launch with a series of socially-distanced and digitally-streamed shows, ahead of welcoming audiences at full capacity once government guidelines allow – provisionally planned for early 2021.The first show will come from Birkenhead’s very own She Drew The Gun, who will play to a socially distanced crowd on Saturday, September 19.“We believe that Future Yard is needed now, more than ever before,” said Future Yard founder Craig

Stars of rock, pop and hip-hop have had enough of hearing their songs pumped at political rallies without the green light. So they’re standing up for their rights.

Glee star Naya Rivera’s younger sister Nickayla Rivera has shared a very emotional tribute to her the late actress.The star, who had played Santana Lopez on the hit show, was found dead this month after she went missing during a boat trip with her four-year-old son Josey in Lake Piru, California. Heartbroken Nickayla shared a sweet snap of herself kissing her sister on the cheek to Instagram, and beneath it penned an open letter to Naya.

T.I. has written an open letter to Lloyds of London, calling out its role in the transatlantic slave trade.Back in June, the organisation acknowledged its previous ties to the slave trade.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Dua Lipa, Charli XCX and Elton John are among the stars who have signed an open letter to the government calling for a ban on “conversion therapy”.The practice is used with the aim of “changing an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, per The Trevor Project’s definition.“Conversion therapists use a variety of shaming, emotionally traumatic or physically painful stimuli to make their victims associate those stimuli with their LGBTQ identities,” the organisation says.

Neil Young has penned a letter to President Trump and updated the lyrics to one of his famous songs just days after rebuffing the president's use of his music at a July Fourth event on the footsteps of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.

public letter decrying the rising “intolerance of opposing views” are distancing themselves from the note while others say that they were asked to sign before the letter was published in Harper’s, but declined.“I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming.  I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company,” tweeted author Jenny Boylan late Tuesday.

Harpers calling for the end of cancel culture.The letter warns against the development of “censoriousness” and “an intolerance of opposing views”.Rowling, who has recently spoken of her views on transgender rights and has sparked a controversial discussion, said on Twitter that she was “proud to sign this letter in defence of a foundational principle of a liberal society: open debate and freedom of thought and speech.”The letter acknowledges “powerful protests for racial and social justice”, but