WMG SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND PLANS A TALK

The Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has announced its fourth set of grantee partners and will hold its first Grantee Convening 6/16-17.

The fourth slate of grantee partners—who are sharing $928,844 in grants that focus on building music-industry pipelines for youth and young professionals of color—are going to Project Level, the Universal Hip Hop Museum, Girls Make Beats, CCCADI (Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute), Save the Music, Black Lives in Music and Unlock Her Potential.

The fund’s 27 current grantees will gather with WMG/BFF SJF board members to share their work and identify synergies among their efforts to advance racial justice in the arts, education and criminal-justice reform. Grantee Convening events can be seen on YouTube (also see below).

“Our Grantee Convening will center the voices of the SJF grantee partners as we dream, grieve, heal, bridge and build toward a liberated future for all of us,” WMG/BFF SJF Executive Director Lorelei Williams said. “We need to create new paradigms of the intersectional movement building to disrupt systemic racism and address anti-Black terrorism. We need new voices at the table. And, if we’re being honest, we need a new table.”

More info about the fund can be found here.