July 2017
Oronike Odeleye, an Atlanta-based managing director of the Creative Currents Artist Collaborative, starts a petition to get R. Kelly’s music off Atlanta radio.
“I have been hearing about R. Kelly’s sexual abuse of young black women since I was in my teens. Every few years more women come out with their stories. More images and videos surface. More Black girls are scarred for life just as they are coming into their womanhood and sexuality,” Odeleye told The Grio.
