![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and other companies suspended normal operations to organize workshops and conversations for their employees. On June 2, Agyemang and Thomas hosted three discussion groups joined by 1,500 invitees from the Black music community. Calling for a day of widespread reckoning - dubbed Blackout Tuesday by some supporters - Agyemang, who is the senior artist campaign manager at Apple’s Platoon division, and Thomas, the senior director of marketing at Atlantic Records, took the entire industry to task for fostering systemic bias while historically profiting from Black music. Instead, the New York natives turned their proposed time off into a movement. After Minneapolis police suffocated George Floyd in late May, protests against racial injustice erupted nationwide, and friends Brianna Agyemang, 32, and Jamila Thomas, 35, considered taking a day away from work to vent their own frustration and anger. The day a multibillion-dollar industry stood still: That’s how June 2, 2020, will always be remembered by those in the music business, thanks to the fearless impulse of two young Black female executives. Manicure by Claritza Martinez/Courtesy of The Lacquer Room. Thomas: Hair by “Barbie" Tenishar Marson. Agyemang: Hair by Dawniece Woods using Her Given Hair. ![]()
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