The Black Madonna changes name to The Blessed Madonna: “I should have listened harder to other perspectives”
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nme.comThe Black Madonna has changed her name to The Blessed Madonna after a petition calling for her to change it due to controversy was set up.The US DJ, whose real name is Marea Stamper, announced the news today (July 20), saying she “should have listened harder to other perspectives” on the name.A petition had previously argued that “black Madonna” icons had special significance for “black catholics in the US, Caribbean and Latin America”, and added: “Religious connotations aside though, it should be abundantly clear that in 2020, a white woman calling herself ‘black’ is highly problematic.”Stamper, who is white, said that her original stage name was “a reflection of my family’s lifelong and profound Catholic devotion to a specific kind of.
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