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How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race

“Let’s Dance” was his first album of the MTV era (and still his best-selling studio recording), and you can sense that he wanted to use his stardom — and his race — to mock the network’s priorities. If it wouldn’t play nonwhite artists, he’d stock his videos with nonwhite people.

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