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The country group Lady Antebellum announced in June that it would change its name to “Lady A,” a move that upset Seattle blues singer Anita White, who has been using the name for decades. “I began using the name back in the late ’80s,” Lady A told The Kyle Olson Show this week. Lady Antebellum, in an attempt to shed its name’s link to slavery, simply adopted “Lady A.” “This is what happens when privilege wants to be woke,” Lady A said, “but really doesn’t know how.” “In your being woke, you can’t go from Lady Antebellum to Lady A...

Anita White, a blues, soul, and funk singer professionally known as Lady A, has responded to Lady Antebellum's new lawsuit, saying she won't let them position her as an “angry Black woman.” (snip) Lady Antebellum dropped the Civil War-era “Antebellum” and changed their name to Lady A in June, citing “necessary changes to practice antiracism” in the wake of nationwide racial justice protests. But what may have started as a genuine gesture turned out to be much more complicated: White has operated under Lady A for two decades. Now, in an effort to affirm usage of the name, the trio...

The trio changed their name in June in light of the term 'Antebellum' referencing a pre-abolition period in the South =============================================================================== top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Country band Lady A has filed a lawsuit over trademark rights against a blues singer who uses the same name. In June, the band -- previously known as Lady Antebellum -- changed their name "after much personal reflection" and conversations with "closest Black friends" because the word "Antebellum" refers to a period of time "which includes slavery," they said. A blues singer from Seattle, Wash.,...

On June 11, the band announced it was dropping the name Antebellum from its name after reflecting on the Black Lives Matter movement and in an effort to be more inclusive. Attorneys for Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, have filed a suit against blues singer Anita White who goes by the name Lady A.

Never ever kowtow to the left-wing mob—ever. They don't want an apology. They want to destroy you. Period. They're an emotionally unstable and unhinged legion of troublemakers who have infiltrated almost every aspect of our society, especially cultural bastions. The woke activists who are mocked on The College Fix and Campus Reform in years past have graduated. The left-wing mob's reach has become more expansive and crazier than ever before. Remember this is the "silence is violence" crowd. Words are violence. Just a method for them to shut down free speech, which The New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer...

Seattle blues singer Lady A had just gotten off of work on Thursday when a bombardment of phone messages from friends, fans and producers came in all shouting the same thing: Her name had been stolen. Earlier that day, Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum — whose name had been criticized for its associations with romanticized ideas of the pre-war, slavery-ridden American South — announced they were changing their name to Lady A in light of a heightened national conversation about racism. Lady Antebellum made the changes swiftly on social media and distribution platforms including Spotify and Apple Music, and the...

<p>The hypersensitive and politically correct culture that is currently handicapping the nation has taken its next victim: country music group Lady Antebellum, which announced on Thursday that for the first time in the fourteen years they’ve been a band that the word “antebellum” might offend people. The term “antebellum” is typically used as a reference to the pre-Civil War American South, during which there was still slavery.</p>