The Boston Globe picked up the story today. Brief blurb from the Living/Arts section:

Letterman gig came with a price

Folk singer Ani DiFranco was supposed to play on ''Late Night With David Letterman '' last night, but, her people say, it was cancel ed following ''conflicts between the artist's stated intentions and the program's expectations of her.'' She wanted to play ''Subdivision,'' a song about racism in urban America that begins ''White people are so scared of black people.'' A week before the taping, Letterman's people insisted DiFranco perform ''Heartbreak Even,'' about a stalled relationship, which they considered more ''upbeat.'' DiFranco, whose self-owned record company is called Righteous Babe, opted out as ''a matter of principle and privilege of her hard-earned independence.''