When Living Colour's Vernon Reid founded the Black Rock Coalition in the 1980s, he was fed up with the way Black artists were pigeonholed as urban contemporary and rap artists. There's certainly nothing wrong with a Black artist choosing urban or rap because that's his/her preference, but there's definitely something wrong with a Black artist being denied access to heavy metal, punk or folk because of his/her skin color--and that's what Reid's BRC was trying to correct.
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