Social Issues

photo: Yan Pei-Ming, Yann Caradec (CC 2.0) Ahead of the debut of the Leaving Neverland documentary set to air on HBO next month, a Danish Mall has removed a statue of Michael Jackson. Denmark's oldest shoppi... Read More...

Gucci's $890 wool baclava jumper, pulled from the lineup this week. Despite an apology from Gucci, calls for a boycott against the fashion designer are gaining steam. It's unclear what Gucci was thinking whe... Read More...

Black Lives Matter organizers have banded together to create a petition protesting the deportation of rapper 21 Savage. The rapper, whose real name is Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested over the weeken... Read More...

The City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia (photo: Michael W Murphy CC 2.0) The entire city of Philadelphia just muted R. Kelly after the city council passed a resolution to ban the performer. The #MuteRKelly ... Read More...

Buju Banton, shortly after his initial arrest in 2009 (photo: U.S. Marshalls Service) Buju Banton is perhaps one of the most well-known dancehall and reggae artists in Jamaica, but his career came to a halt b... Read More...

Ty Dolla Sign in Hollywood, CA in October, 2018 (photo: Glenn Francis CC SA 4.0) A Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury has returned two indictments against Ty Dolla $ign. The first indictment is for felony po... Read More...

Kanye West performing in the Netherlands, 2012 (photo: Pieter-Jannick Dijkstra, CC 2.0) Kanye West has donated $150,000 to the family of a security guard who was killed in a Chicago suburb by a police officer... Read More...

Lily Allen has detailed her account of a sexual assault she experienced at the hands of an unnamed 'record industry executive'. Allen warns that such abuses are common in the music industry in her recently r... Read More...