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On Sept. 23, The Weeknd will receive the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award during the first-ever Music in Action Awards, hosted by the Black Music Action Coalition.
The event, set to take place at 1 Hotel in West Hollywood, California, will honor musicians, music executives and music businesses that have made significant contributions to social justice, change and/or equity in the last year. The BMAC will also present the Berry Gordy Social Impact Award, Clarence Avant Trailblazer Award and Agent of Change Award to other honorees.
Within the last year, The Weeknd has given millions of dollars toward several causes, including racial justice. Last June, he donated $200,000 each to both the Black Lives Matter Global Network and the Colin Kaepernick Know Your Rights Legal Defense Camp. The Weeknd also donated $100,000 to the National Bail Out Collective. Last June, the Blinding Lights hitmaker gave $500,000 to hospital workers of the Scarborough Health Network in his n
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Center for a Free Cuba Denounces Ad in NYT That Sides With The Repressive Dictatorship By Michael W. Chapman | July 27, 2021 | 12:18pm EDT
Protesters gather near the Cuban embassy during a protest in support of continued anti-government protests in Cuba in Washington DC, on July 26, 2021. (Getty Images)
(CNS News) A full-page ad placed in the
New York Times on July 23 by the left-wing Code Pink organization, and signed by numerous left-wing luminaries, was denounced by the Center for a Free Cuba as siding with the repressive dictatorship of Cuba’s abuses against the people of Cuba.
The ad, headlined Let Cuba Live, is an open letter to Democratic President Joe Biden calling on him to rescind the coercive measures put on Communist Cuba by the Trump administration. It also calls for returning to the opening to Cuba started by President Barack Obama and perhaps ending the U.S. embargo against the island.
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