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CLEVELAND PLAIN-DEALER Recording artists and radio stations fight over royalties, air play and spin By Stephen Koff June 13, 2010 Somewhere in the United States this hour, you can turn on the radio and hear “Soul Man” by Sam and Dave, the “greatest of all soul duos,” as the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

When Blacks Turn Green If Cathy Hughes were a White woman, Black America would be enraged, much too often being Black allows ill intent to go unchecked in communities of color. From the local drug dealer to America’s largest African American broadcaster– race, wealth and power have two sets of rules. Race in America continues

GlobalHue releases new report on Cultural Boundaries between Ethnic Populations GlobalHue, the nation’s largest multicultural advertising agency, today revealed the results of a new U.S. survey of four major population segments, creating a comprehensive cultural map of a rapidly changing nation and providing marketers with new information on consumers in the New America. Surveying people

CNN Kid’s and Race: Can’t be Trusted Is it me or has cable news become a mix of pundits and corporate partners? CNN and the AC 360 series on “Kid’s and Race” is a prime example of why race will always be an issue. Same old questions with the hand picked experts giving the same

By AMY SCHATZ Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed for traditional phone networks. The decision, by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, is likely to trigger a vigorous lobbying battle, arraying