KATSEYE's only Black member, Manon Bannerman, was just put on "hiatus" by HYBE and Geffen Records. Hours later, Manon posted her own statement: "Sometimes things unfold in ways we don't fully control."

Read those two statements side by side. One is a press release. The other is a woman telling you, between the lines, that this wasn't entirely her decision.

From Mel B to Normani to Leigh-Anne Pinnock, the music industry has been running the same playbook on Black women in pop groups for decades. I documented the entire pattern.