Music industry hits pause to reflect as US protests rage

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SANTA MONICA, California: Leading record labels will mark 'Black Out Tuesday' this week, suspending business and working with communities to fight ...

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Universal Music Group is seen at a building in Zurich, Switzerland July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File PhotoSANTA MONICA, California: Leading record labels will mark"Black Out Tuesday" this week, suspending business and working with communities to fight racial inequality after protests erupted in the United States following the death of a black man, George Floyd, in police custody.

"The music business at WMG will not go on as usual," Warner Records wrote on its account, referring to Warner Music Group. It said it would contribute to Black Lives Matter and other groups fighting"racial injustice". "This week, yet again we saw our society's most painful realities about race, justice and inequality brought — cruelly and brutally — into the harsh light of day," he wrote in the note, seen by Reuters.

 

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