Grammy categories will no longer be used by the streaming service in the UK.“Moving forward, we won’t be using the word ‘urban’ in the UK anymore,” Safiya Lambie-Knight, Spotify UK’s head of artist and label partnerships, tells Music Week.
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Also Read: AP Stylebook Updated to Capitalize 'Black' and 'Indigenous'While Hopkins has drawn the ire of many in the U.K. for her views on Europe’s migration crisis, more recently she’s been ripped for her criticism of Black Lives Matter.“Today is #whiteoutwednesday. I will shortly be posting a picture of my arse.
Thank you,” Hopkins tweeted earlier this month.Later, she tweeted: “I am a Straight. White. Christian.
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.Grammy categories will no longer be used by the streaming service in the UK.“Moving forward, we won’t be using the word ‘urban’ in the UK anymore,” Safiya Lambie-Knight, Spotify UK’s head of artist and label partnerships, tells Music Week.
Andreas Wiseman International EditorSix years ago I wrote a piece titled All White At The Top, asking why the UK film industry was painfully bereft of Black, Asian and minority ethnic executives.I drew up a list of more than 75 leading companies in production, sales, exhibition, distribution, post-production, public and private finance, VFX, talent agencies and physical studios.
Nigel Farage is to leave his LBC radio show with immediate effect following his controversial statements about the Black Lives Matter campaign.The Brexit Party leader has presented on the London-based station regularly since January 2017.This week he compared those involved in the Black Lives Matter movement to the Taliban and branded those involved in taking down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston as a “violent mob”.He tweeted on Sunday: "A new form of the Taliban was born in the UK
"Star Wars" actor John Boyega risked professional fallout and delivered a powerful speech at a Black Lives Matter protest in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday.
In support of Black Lives Matter, BTS released a statement in which the members declared that they “stand against racial discrimination” after the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee and other unarmed Black Americans. The band took to their Twitter on Thursday, June 4, with a statement in Korean and English about how the K-pop group condemns systemic racial violence and discrimination.
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The family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby has urged people to stop using his image ‘in a divisive way’ in arguments against Black Lives Matter protests.
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“12 Years A Slave” director Steve McQueen has dedicated his two movies announced today as part of the Cannes Film Festival lineup to George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.