Jeremy Helligar: Last News

Jeremy Helligar Lena Waithe is on a mission to return Black music to its glory days. The multitalent, whose résumé includes hot shows like “Master of None,” “The Chi” and “Twenties,” has added head of Hillman Grad Records to her many roles, and she’s looking to vintage Black superstars from the ’90s for inspiration.“I’m young enough to remember Toni Braxton, hearing her song [‘Love Shoulda Brought You Home’] in ‘Boomerang’ for the first time and going, ‘Who is that?,’ and then watching her career pick up and flourish,” recalls Waithe, 37, who executive produces the BET TV series based on the 1992 film.

Variety’s review of “Black Is King,” Jeremy Helligar wrote: “Despite its racially charged title, ‘King’ is not just for Black people. It’s also for a society of non-Blacks who have been conditioned to think of people of African descent as being less-than, without their own history and with limited futures.

Jeremy Helligar When he was making the video for the song “Slave,” off his just-released album “Help,” Duval Timothy rounded up a pair of unimaginable co-stars: Prince and Nipsey Hussle. No, the UK-based ambient-jazz musician didn’t resurrect the late “Purple Rain” icon, who died in 2016, or the late rapper, who died last year, in the form of holograms, but rather he collaborated with visual artist Max Valizadeh to create stop-motion likeness of both to join an animated Timothy in his battle against the tyranny of record labels.“There’s a deep history of Black artists being exploited by largely white-owned record labels,” Timothy explains.

The country stars formerly known as The Dixie Chicks had been wanting to change their “stupid” name for years before finally taking action last month.

The Dixie Chicks have changed their name and ditched 'Dixie' due to racial connotations from the past.While revealing the news of their latest single, March March, singers Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire confirmed the news that they are now to be known as The Chicks."We want to meet the moment," the band said on its website, without further explanation.US journalist Jeremy Helligar had recently said the word Dixie related to the slavery era of America.He said: "Dixie, for the record, is the epitome of white America, a celebration of a Southern tradition that is indivisible from Black slaves and those grand plantations where they were forced to toil for free."A statement released by the 13 times Grammy Award-winning group

Dixie Chicks‘ name, saying it’s “the epitome of white America.”Jeremy Helligar has asked whether it’s right for the country band, who are set to release their comeback record ‘Gaslighter’ on July 17, to keep using the name – particularly in the current context of the fight for racial justice.Helligar argued in a guest column for Variety that the band should rethink their name because “regardless of its origin, for many Black people, it conjures a time and a place of bondage.”He continued: “‘Dixie,’ for the record, is the epitome of white America, a celebration of a Southern tradition that is indivisible from Black slaves and those grand plantations where they were forced to toil for free.“The origin of the word, though, is unclear.

Jeremy Helligar The Dixie Chicks have a reputation for being one of the most progressive acts in country music. If “Goodbye Earl,” the Texas-bred trio’s 2000 hit about a battered wife who offs her husband by slipping poison into his black-eyed peas, didn’t tip us off, frontwoman Natalie Maines sealed their liberalism — and their fate — after the U.S.