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Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy begins donating 5% of royalties to social justice causes
I don t have all the answers, said Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. I just wanna do my part.
In a statement after the killing of George Floyd last summer, Tweedy wrote, The modern music industry is built almost entirely on Black art. The wealth that rightfully belonged to Black artists was stolen outright. He called for an industry-wide plan to address this enormous injustice.
This month, Tweedy, who s sold millions of records with his indie rock band, will begin giving away some of his songwriting income to social justice causes, contributing five percent of his songwriting royalties. In all honesty, [it] isn t a whole lot of money! he laughed. The point would be that, that would be multiplied by thousands of people at my level. ....

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