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Spotify’s 'Black Lives Matter' Playlist Subscribers Grew 1,000% on 'Blackout Tuesday'
Sandra Bland died in a jail cell in 2015, three days after she recorded a confrontation with a state trooper in Texas, Spotify’s head of R&B and soul Mjeema Pickett assembled her sad and angry playlist team. As a healing exercise, they did what they do every day: blurted out song titles.