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industry is built almost entirely on black art, the wealth that rightfully belonged to black artists was stolen outright. tweedy who won his latest grammy said he hopes it will inspire other white artists to follow suit. >> i don't have all the answers. i just want to do my part. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: this month, jeff tweedy who sold millions records with his indy rock band, will begin giving away some of his song writing income to social justice causes. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: it's 5% of your songwriter's royalties that you are contributing. >> right, and in all honesty, it's not a whole lot of money. the point would be that would be multiplied by thousands of people at my level. >> reporter: the money will go at first to i grow chicago. a nonprofit in his native city

that serves the englewood neighborhood on the south side, with food assistance, education and job skills training. >> we are par t of the communit, we are giving support and directly impacting the lives of community members that we serve and work hand in hand with. >> their mission statement quotes cornell west, justice is what love looks like in public. that is something that we believe in deeply in our family. >> reporter: do you consider it a form of reparations? >> yeah, it's a tricky word to use. we have a large segment of this population that worked to build the country andwere never paid for it. that needs to be are repaired. >> reporter: brittney spanos, a senior writer for rolling stone agrees. who's responsibility is it to change this? >> it's definitely the label's responsibility to reassess how they are paying the artists.

reassess how they have taken advantage of the artists in past. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: taking advantage of pioneering artists like the late little richard. ♪ ♪ who's 1955 hit, tudy-fruity was a battle cry at the birth of rock and roll. in many ways it started with little richard. >> it did, we would not have the beatles or the rolling stones. >> we would like to do a song that was originally recorded by little richard. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: little richard's songs were often covered by white artists. as he told ed bradley in 1985. >> they sold a fortune of the records but i never got a dime. elv elv elvispressley did all of my stuff. >> reporter: and you never

got -- >> not a call or a christmas card. >> they were not given royalties at all and if they did, it was crumbs. the artists making and creating the industry were not seeing the same end of the deal that white artists that were inspired by them were getting. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: another hugely influential artist complained about bad contracts in an interview. >> reporter: these people have made millions and millions and millions and they are still selling songs and licensing stuff all over the world and i want money. i don't want songs sgloomp sson >> reporter: what needs to change in the music industry? >> the good news is a lot of things are changing. >> reporter: an attorney and music executive is a co-founder of the new black music action coalition that forred last summer. >> people are listening now more than they had been listening

before. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but while black artists dominate the charts and some now have better contracts, brown says, there's plenty of room for the industry to improve. >> we need to do a better job of making sure that black people are fully and truly participating in the revenues that are being generated and that we have wibetter representation at the executive level. there needs to be more artists and black female artists headlining on the stages of festivals. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: tweedy has been deeply influenced by black artists like his fellow chicagoan, who he has produced three albums for. i don't know if you talked to anybody in the african-american community when you were thinking about this? >> i thought about it, the

original impulse was guided by the idea somewhat that it's not their problem. and i didn't want to burden her with that idea had that jeff needs help figuring out how to feel better about racism or something. you know? and when i know the answer, the answer is that you don't get to feel better about racism. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: tweedy thought his challenge to the music industry would start a conversation. did many of your fellow musicians reach out to you about it? >> not as many as i thought would happen initially. >> reporter: what were you hoping would come are from it? >> i think i was hoping that some one much more famous than myself would say, hey, that's a decent idea, let's really get the ball rolling. i really want to remain hopeful about this. and at the same time, i have to be honest that i wish it was

being taken a little bit more seriously, you when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you.

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it is often said that sageage i just a number, and there's no better example of that other than an man named officer buckshot. >> he drives around in an unmarked police car, and everyone in camden, arkansas knows his name. lc buckshot smith is the oldest police officer in the state, he moves a little slower now, but he still walks the beat of his home down four days a week. what makes you a good police officer even at 91? >> this badge and gun don't make you a police officer. >> hello, mr. buckshot. >> you got to respect apeople.

>> reporter: he earned his popularity by working for four decades. that is him holding the shot gun after 46 years as a deputy, he retired for only five months. >> i don't hunt. i don't fish. >> reporter: so in his 80s, he became a rookie camden cop. he carries a firearm but he doesn't have to use it. >> he knew your mother and grandmother, he the authority to speak in to our lives. >> reporter: how many do you think you arrested in your career? >> oh, i have taken more people home than i arrested. taken to jail. >> reporter: officer smith said he will retire when the good lord tells him to. until then, buckshot keeps to keep rolling and patrolling. cbs news, camden, arkansas. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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it's wednesday, march 17th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." >> we just heard numerous gunshots coming from across the street. >> deadly spa shootings. at least eight people killed at three different locations near atlanta. the latest on the investigation. crisis at the border. a historic number of migrant children are coming to the u.s. how many are in custody right now. out of the hospital. golf legend tiger woods says he's back home after a crash he's back home after a crash that could have taken his life. captioning funded by cbs good morning, everyone. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we're going to begin this morning with three shootings in the atlanta arha