As soon as Kevin Greene got up to speak, he noticed people walking out. Greene was in Washington D.C., about to begin his presentation on Black music, copyright law, and social justice at the annual ...

[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In this report, we incorrectly refer to Corey Antonio Rose as Corey Antonio Jones.] SCOTT SIMON (HOST): The call for reparations to compensate descendants of African slaves ...

In the six weeks since nationwide Black Lives Matter protests rose up after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, musicians have been reckoning with their own complicit role in the longstanding ...

On June 18, Jeff Tweedy announced that he would start donating 5% of his writer royalties to racial justice organizations and urged other artists to do the same. And in a new interview, Tweedy ...

The call for reparations is being sounded beyond the U.S., with activists and political leaders demanding accountability for slavery and colonization of their countries. In Jamaica, which became a ...

“Businesses in the Lloyd’s market have operated for over 330 years, and there is much to be proud of in our long collective history,” reads the company’s statement, per Forbes. “However, there are ...

Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama, on display at the National Portrait Gallery in 2018. Essayist Jesse McCarthy examines Wiley’s work, including its “appropriation of Old Master swag.” (Photo ...

This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for enslavement and its legacies, as a matter of human rights. 1. What are ...

We look at how musicians across the country are doing their part to call for reparations within their own industry. The reparation conversation has long been part of Black music [POST-BROADCAST ...