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Oct 21, 2020 · October 21, 2020, 11:49am. Unpaid Royalties is a series about the myriad ways that the music industry exploits Black artists—and what’s being done to change them. Read more here. Three years ...
Sep 21, 2024 · The list of legendary Black musicians who didn't receive fair pay for their work is long. It includes Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Nina Simone and Little Richard, just to name a few.
Sep 19, 2024 · Music critic MK Asante appears in the new CBC/BBC documentary, Paid In Full: The Battle For Black Music. (Courtesy of CBC) A new CBC/BBC three-part documentary series, Paid In Full: The Battle For ...
May 12, 2021 · Since the dawn of the recording industry, industry representatives have denied many Black artists compensation commensurate to that given to other artists. From an economic perspective, former ...
May 9, 2020 · TOPLINE. Little Richard, who died Saturday at age 87, was one of the most influential musicians of all time—but a bad record deal and the pervasive racism of the 1950’s American music industry ...
Jul 30, 2019 · In the majority of cases, it turns out most Black songwriters of those eras barely made a dime off of their creative work, while the white musicians found radio airtime, fame, money, and notoriety ...
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Dec 18, 2020 · BMG did not identify which four labels had been responsible for under-paying black artists; and warned the results "cannot be extrapolated to prove or disprove racial discrimination in the music ...
