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More billionaires like ri-ri. >> i love that. good point. kelly, we love to see it and i think its something interesting that this happens this week, we celebrated black womens equal payday. so on one hand youre really excited, on the other hand youre still kind of pissed off. on the spectrum of things, im curious your thoughts. >> listen, we cant ignore the fact that the reason why rihanna is now $1.7 billion rich is because she saw a need. there was something that was missing in the beauty spa...

BBC News By Steve Holden "I am the same artist, but Im a different person now." Its been four-and-a-half years since Ray BLK beat the likes of RagnBone Man, Tom Grennan, Dave and Jorja Smith to become the first ever unsigned winner of the BBCs annual Sound Of poll. Previous winners such as Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith and Years & Years went on to achieve overnight success. Ray tells Radio 1 Newsbeat the "usual progression" for someone winning the title is "dropping your debut album, everything go...

Ray BLK Drops New Single Dark Skinned Friday, 07 May 2021 Ray BLK has unveiled a new single. Following her Giggs collaboration Games, Dark Skinned serves as the another preview of the 26-year-old singers forthcoming album, due later in 2021 via Island Records, though a release date is still to be confirmed. She said: "This song to me is a celebration of being Dark Skinned. The conversation around race often feels heavy and negative, but I love my blackness and it is a privilege to be ...

What does masculinity or seeking identity as a young white man in america have to do with racial hatred. they hate me because im dark-skinned or brown. hate me because i have a history of slavery because im doing something to the demise of america that my ancestors built. were not born with a racist gene. were trained that if theyre white families doing it, i dont know how you explain away hatred and violence against people of color because you have race-neutral issues that all of us do. >> tony...

Dark-skinned, and they didnt really belong here. that was the rhetoric of people like donald trump. and yet it seems that italians have given us many things that we like. nobody today thinks of italians as somehow un-american. im not talking about spaghetti and meatballs. im talking about, randomly, "goodfellas," "mean streets," "wolf of wall street," these good movies that people like donald trump sit, eating their popcorn, and watching. thats martin scorsese, italian people, or more to the poi...

With john whk whorter, a professor of linguistics at columbia university. why are you shaking your head? >> because i know where were going, and im a sad man. >> why? >> because of this business of invasion, these words that hes using. people invading, and so people are coming in, and theyre invading. now, if were talking about a president who has the historical awareness of roughly a kitchen cabinet or a spoon or a tonka truck, then maybe its understandable in a formal sense. but many people ha...

Very dark blacks or light skinned blacks? >> assortment. >> assortment of blacks. >> against whites. >> how many blonds. >> probably none. i would say none. >> wouldnt that set off a racial war in this country? >> actually i dont think it would. i think it would be handled very beautifully by me. >> that was 2005. ben, what do you make of it. that would be handled beautifully by me. assortment of blacks, light skinned, dark skinned. you can write it off to say he said it on howard stern or you c...

Nato alliance together. >> which is an offensive yiddish word. >> indeed, its unpresidential. but were not schmucks to support nato. were the leader of an alliance that has kept the world stable for seven decades. >> gene, you wrote about the implicit racism underlying a lot of his rhetoric. >> a lot of his explicit -- but certainly he has a lot of inputs. and his policies, his rhetoric, what hes been doing on the border, since the beginning of the campaign when he came down the escalator and st...

Life. so when i look at a young man, a dark-skinned little boy who happens to have a scar on his face, who happens to be named michael, who is telling me that hes going through that amount of pain at that age, i cant tell you the effect that had on me. it was internal. it was a -- it was on a very cellular level that those stories affected me. thats what that was. >> michael, thank you. thank you for what youre doing and sharing your stories this way. >> the documentary raised in the system prem...

Know, because i consider myself an at risk youth. the arts saved my life. when i look at a young man, a dark-skinned little boy who happens to have a scar on his face who happens to be named michael hosteling me that hes going through that amount of pain at that age, i cant tell you the effect that had on me. it was -- it was internal. it was -- it was on a is he cellular level that those stories affected me. thats what that was. >> michael, thank you. thank you for what youre doing and sharing ...