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Music’s Highest Ranking Black Executive Speaks Out: ‘A Change Must Come,’ Says Sony/ATV’s Jon Platt

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By Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Jon Platt, chairman and CEO of Sony/ATV, the world’s biggest music publishing company, is one of the most powerful and influential publishers of the past 25 years, having worked with Jay-Z, Beyonce and Rihanna since early in their careers.

He is also the highest ranking black executive in the music industry. Platt wrote an op-ed on the week’s recent events, which is published in full below.

A CHANGE MUST COME By Jon Platt Honoring African-Americans’ pioneering contributions to the nation’s cultural history, Black Music Month opens today, June 1.

With racial strife rumbling across our country as I write this, I am struggling to reconcile the conflicting realities of the universal appreciation of Black

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