Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has set out a plan for reparations to be made within the music industry.It comes after Tweedy last month announced that he would be donating 5% of his songwriting royalties to Black Lives Matter moving forwards.“The modern music industry is built almost entirely on Black art.
The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright and to this day continues to grow outside their communities,” he wrote at the time.Now, talking to Rolling Stone in a new interview, Tweedy set out his vision for a wider set of reparations from the music industry as a whole.“It’s not an exaggeration to say our culture wouldn’t be our culture without black genius.
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