Last year, the Recording Academy and social justice nonprofit Color of Change announced their joint initiative, #ChangeMusic, to bring equity to Black creators and professionals in the music industry. This week, Color of Change continues that work by partnering with Diverse Representation — a database of Black agents, attorneys, managers, and publicists in the sports and entertainment industries — to launch the Black Music Executives Pipeline Program. According to Forbes, this new program is the first to be released from #ChangeMusic and will rely on the expertise of both the non-profit organization and diversity database to help increase the number of active Black executives in the music industry. Additionally, the program will also be responsible for creating an effective tool that will “allow record labels, publishers, video production companies, streaming services and touring companies to quickly identify and hire Black professionals,” Billboard reports. While #ChangeMusic was...

The top Ivy League schools have historically marginalized Black and brown students. While students of color have been welcomed in recent years, they are still underrepresented. However, the founders of Trillicon Valley and The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (or d.school) are advocating for more inclusion to build the largest Black and Brown attended class in university history, according to an Instagram post. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Stanford Community College (@stanfordcommunitycollege) This fall, d.school and Trillicon Valley — founded by Khristopher Sandifer, Brice Butler, DeVaris Brown, Jason Mayden, Brandon Middleton, and Olatunde Sobomehin — will offer a free 10-week course, “Community College: Designing Black and Brown Spaces,” where students will learn how to create communal, academic and corporate spaces for people of color. According to a description , the course will be led by a four-person teaching team, which includes...