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Live 8 Racism?

06/03/05
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(BBC) A campaign group has called the Live 8 London concert "hideously white" for not having enough black performers.

Superstar Mariah Carey is almost the only ethnic minority performer at Hyde Park on 2 July, one of five global Live 8 concerts that day.

London-based group Black Information Link said organisers had "handpicked a virtually all-white line-up". [wanna trade for the US lineup? - see the full story for the bigger picture and the organizer's response.] - Click here for the Full Story

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