Face the Music: R. Kelly, Young Black Victims, and Fair Access to the Criminal Justice System
Making a song with R. Kelly was a mistake. I did not value the accusers’ stories because they were black women. I made a mistake”. – Chance the Rapper In 2008, recording artist Robert Kelly, also known as “R. Kelly” was acquitted of all twenty-one counts of child pornography. At the center of the trial was a video that included R. Kelly engaged in a sexual encounter with a minor, who was believed to be thirteen at the time the video surfaced. A decade after his trial, the key