A Letter From Billboard: Why the Show Must Be Paused
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billboard.comThe racism and police brutality we've seen across the country in recent weeks has been devastating — and even more punishing in what was already a terrifying time of health and economic crisis.
Yet the violence has been all too familiar for the Black community, to whom we owe so much of our greatest music.Two young music executives, Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang, decided that business couldn't go on as usual without both music companies and consumers placing as high a value on the lives of Black creators as they do on their art, sagely declaring that "the show must be paused." On the website for what's been dubbed "Black Out Tuesday," they've encouraged the music sector to use June 2 "for an honest, reflective, and productive.
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