Grammy’s Name Change
“When the world listens to women, it listens to white women.” The #ShareTheMicNow campaign launched this week to center black women’s voices, work, and experiences, and to form a relationship among Black and white women so that future activism is born from relationships. The campaign reached over 300 million people with 40 pairs of women participating.
Here are a few sample features:
Bozoma Saint John, one of the campaign organizers, business woman, and CMO at Endeavor, swapped with Kourtney Karashian...see the posts here.
Austin Channing Brown - Author of best-selling book “I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness”, speaker, and producer of the web series, The Next Question took over via Brene Brown’s account...see the posts here.
Melina Abdullah - Chair of the Pan-African studies department at California State University, Los Angeles and Co-founder of the Los Angeles Black Lives Matter chapter swapped with Chelsea Handler...see the posts here.
Join Boots Riley, director of SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, for a conversation on arts, politics, and revolution, hosted by Haymarket Books on June 15 at 2:00 PM PST. Get tickets here.
The Grammy’s are (finally) renaming their Urban Contemporary category to 'Best Progressive R&B Album’. The redefinition of this category, according to the Academy, is "intended to highlight albums that include the more progressive elements of R&B and may include samples and elements of hip-hop, rap, dance, and electronic music."
The internet blew up after JK Rowling released a lengthy essay in response to backlash to this tweet. Many of the Harry Potter series cast members responded, including Daniel Radcliffe, who wrote an essay for The Trevor Project.
Chloe x Halle’s new album ungodly hour dropped last night! The duo is having an online listening party tonight at 4PM PST / 7PM. These sisters are incredibly talented and made their new album entirely in their garage. Their idea of a garage band is def different than mine was growing up...
