Remembering 79-year-old Franklin Agbotui who was beaten to death in an unprovoked attack by 20-year-old Phillip Fraczek in East London in 2024.
There were no riots and there was hardly any news coverage.
I do wonder why this poor man's MURDER was widely ignored by the press??
Neo-soul is Black music. There's so much of our cultural identity in those songs.
The genre was built by folks like D'Angelo, Angie Stone, Musiq Soulchild, Jill Scott, Raphael Saadiq, Maxwell, Erykah Badu, etc, so to lose two of them in one year is absolutely devastating.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, responds to Donald Trump calling him a horrible mayor:
“I think he’s got a crush on me, it’s either that or he believes in giving me squatter’s rights inside his head… He is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic, and he is Islamophobic."
He is right. In the ‘90s, a clear separation was evident. Music, television, & entertainment were created for young audiences, giving rise to teen culture. Today, teens & adults consume the same content, & social media has eroded the unique spaces where teen culture once thrived.