Apple has sent out contracts to independent labels detailing its iTunes Radio terms. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple will be paying a higher rate per song than competitor Pandora, and it will also offer additional ad revenue too. Apple will pay independent labels 0.13 cents e... Read more...
We’ve written plenty about how the US government has been quite aggressive in spying on Americans. It has been helped along by a court system that doesn’t seem particularly concerned about the 4th Amendment and by the growing ability of private companies to have our data and to then share it w... Read more...
So white people cant wear hoodies either? Facebook has raked in billions and will make a splash when its stock hits the open market next week. So, what are folks on Wall Street concerned about? Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie, apparently. Michael Pachter, an analyst for Wedbush Securities, tol... Read more...
Exploitative much? According to stats from All Music Guide (allmusic.com), Tupac Shakur 'released' three times as many albums after his death than before. The posthumous math looks something like this. Prior to his tragic passing in 1996, the rapper had released 5 albums. After his deat... Read more...
The Tupac Shakur "hologram" used onstage at Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival over the weekend isn't a novelty in just the live music business. It's also a rarity in entertainment law. "It's very unique," says Donald Passman, an entertainment attorney for the Los Angeles-based fi... Read more...
Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million - mostly Black and Hispanic - are working for various industries for a pittance. F... Read more...
We are all now 99% Occupied with the case of Trayvon Martin but after we've marched with outrage the fact remains his murder is a heart breaking reminder of who is valuable and who is not. The ancestors at the NYC African Burial Ground were bought and sold as property by the 1% of that time, the... Read more...
Whenever someone thinks they have few bullet points of supreme wisdom that can save the world, sane people instantly roll their eyes. The insanely curious will, of course, be unable to stop themselves from reading on. You decide which you are. Here are three ways to save America’s Black boys: ... Read more...
It was both a walk down memory lane and a call to action when singer, actor, civil rights activist and international humanitarian Harry Belafonte spoke at St. Sabina Church. Part of a Black History Month program that also brought Princeton Professor Cornel West to the South Side church on... Read more...