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Slender and pale, David Bowie counted the dour Thin White Duke among his many incarnations. But his first love was African-American music and his views on race, like his music, were often ahead of their time. After the British rock legend's shock death from cancer, a video went viral online of David Bowie in 1983 accusing MTV of ignoring African-Am...

In the early eighties David Bowie publicly shamed MTV for its lack of diversity. "It occurred to me that, having watched MTV over the last few months, that it's a solid enterprise and it's got a lot going for it," he had said. "I'm just floored by the fact that there are... so few black artists featured on it. Why is that?"

Slender and pale, David Bowie counted the dour Thin White Duke among his many incarnations. But his first love was African-American music and his views on race, like his music, were often ahead of their time. After the British rock legend's shock death from cancer, a video went viral online of David Bowie in 1983 accusing MTV of ignoring African-Am...

In the early eighties David Bowie publicly shamed MTV for its lack of diversity. "It occurred to me that, having watched MTV over the last few months, that it's a solid enterprise and it's got a lot going for it," he had said. "I'm just floored by the fact that there are... so few black artists featured on it. Why is that?"