More than 700 British musicians, music managers, agents and labels unite for Rock Against Racism amid the BlackLivesMatter movement
Musicians pledge to"wipe out racism" amid a growing global movement to tackle discrimination and abuse following the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man in the United States.
The pledge made in a letter published on Sunday comes four decades after British musicians banded together for Rock Against Racism, a cultural movement that emerged in 1976 in response to rising xenophobia., a Black man, in police custody in the United States. The letter comes after British grime artist Wiley was banned from social media following a string of anti-semitic posts. Wiley apologised on Wednesday and said he was not racist.
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