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Black Music Action Coalition ‘Report Card’ Takes Music Industry to Task Over Diversity

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA year on from the “Blackout Tuesday,” during which the music industry paused to take a look at its racial policies and plan to reform them, how is it doing?

According to both last week’s USC-Annenberg “Inclusion in the Music Business” study and a “report card” released over the weekend by the Black Music Action Coalition — a 200-plus-member organization formed around this time last year — it’s doing fair-to-badly.BMAC’s 37-page report takes a look at dozens of organizations in multiple categories — labels, streaming services, live-entertainment, the Recording Academy and more — to examine how much they have lived up to their multiple pledges, in particularly to elevate black employees and donate to racial.

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