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SENIOR WRITER
Jesse Washington is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. He still gets buckets.
Black artists are all over the year-end chart, but Rihanna and Drake were among the few black artists singing about love
Love songs make up more than a third of the year-end chart, but only five are by black artists
10 years ago, love songs by black artists become harder to find on the year-end chart
20 years ago, chart-toppers from Whitney, Brandy and Mariah Carey meant nearly half the songs by black artists were love songs
30 years ago, the popularity of Milli Vanilli meant more than half the songs by black artists on the pop chart were for lovers
40 years ago in the Earth, Wind & Fire era, about half the black artists on the year-end pop chart were singing love songs
50 years ago, love songs made up the majority of titles by black artists on the pop charts
After 11 seasons of stubborn stardom, he’s seeking a new beginning in Houston
The NBA star used a lot of words to say nothing
New Jersey will require implicit bias training for officials and staff involved in high school sports