Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
School slammed for asking students to 'pretend they're a slave and write letter'
mirror.co.ukA school has been slammed for asking its mostly white students to write a letter pretending they're a slave on a plantation.
Pupils in a history class were told to write a letter "to your family back in Africa or in another American state" describing what life was like as a slave in a Deep South state in the US.
They were encouraged to describe the boat "journey" across the Atlantic, the "day-to-day tasks" that slaves were forced to do, the "family you live with" and "how you pass your time when you aren't working".
A local Black Lives Matter group slammed the exercise - saying it was an attempt to "whitewash" history - and shared a photo of the assignment given to students in the tiny city of Purvis, Mississippi .
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