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BMAC’s Willie ‘Prophet’ Stiggers on DEI Layoffs & the Music Industry’s ‘False Promises’
BMAC's president/CEO talks DEI layoffs and the music industry's "false promises" on diversity as well as the Grammys, legislative polices and more.
The National Action Network Award that Stiggers received this year — “a 360 moment for me because my activism began with [NAN founder and president] Al Sharpton. Three years ago, we partnered with the RIAA and Tennessee State University and [Nashville Music Equity’s] Brian Sexton, who is an alumnus there, to bring a unique commercial business school to young people who want to get into the industry. If we don’t get over there and start working with our African brothers and sisters to understand the industry, the cultural appropriation that took place in hip-hop, blues, rock, country will happen over there.
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