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Days after 'Rolling Stone' co-founder Jann Wenner's controversial comments were published in a New York Times interview, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced the removal of Wenner from its board of directors, which he helped found in 1983. The hall said in a statement: "Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation." The New York Times published an interview with Wenner regarding his forthcoming book, "The Masters," which contains interviews with musicians all white men including Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Bono. When Wenner was asked why the book did not include interviews with women or people of color, Wenner is quoted as saying about the women of rock: "Just none of them were as articulate enough on this intellectual level." In the interview he expressed similar thoughts regarding Black rock artists. Wenner said, according to the

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