The Blur frontman said travelling to Europe was no longer straightforward for young bands due to the need for visas and fumed that the value of arts and creativity had been diminished.
A 1975 protest at a McDonald’s restaurant in Kansas City emerged from years of escalating tension between Black community members and their city, and between McDonald’s and the neighborhoods it inhabited. But this particular location was also one of the first Black-owned fast-food franchises in the country, an accomplishment born from its own struggle for inclusion.