The move comes after comments Wenner made about Black and women artists in a New York Times interview promoting his new book, 'The Masters.'
Jann Wenner has been removed from the board of directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, the organization said in a statement to The Times on Saturday.controversial interview,
Reporter David Marchese asked Wenner why he had not included interviews with any Black musicians or women in the book. “It’s not that they’re not creative geniuses. It’s not that they’re inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin,” he said. “Please, be my guest. You know, Joni was not a philosopher of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my mind, meet that test. Not by her work, not by other interviews she did. The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.”
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