Description: BMAC an advocacy organization formed to address systemic racism within the music business. Our Coalition advocates on behalf of Black artists, songwriters, producers, managers, agents, executives, lawyers and other passionate industry professionals.
The Black Music Action Coalition’s inaugural Music Industry Action Report Card is a measure of accountability for public pledges and promises made in the wake of the extrajudicial murder of George Floyd and the music industry-wide observation of #TheShowMustBePaused. The call to action issued to the industry is, and has been, for Black people - executives, artists, vendors and stakeholders - to have voice, visibility, participation and ownership on par with the revenue driven by Black music and culture. Th
Companies did a fair job of visibly amplifying Black voices and causes and putting money back into Black communities and Black organizations over the last year. However, the point is to hold companies to the task of sustained investment and change. Over the years, there’ve been a handful of studies that spoke to systematic racism, varying business practices and severe underrepresentation in the music industry, most recently from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in June, and whether 1981 or 2021, the st
Corporations in general, and entertainment specifically, have been overdue for a standard, public measurement of how their practices impact the Black lives, including executives, artists and the communities they come from.