The Black Music Motion Coalition joined Democratic lawmakers and dozens of organizations to demand President Joe Biden’s assist in passing racial equality and reparative justice laws on Monday (February 19). BMAC urged the president to fulfill with Reps. Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman to work on rectifying historic and systemic inequities in the US.
“We launched BMAC in 2020 and one in all our first initiatives was calling for a racial justice dedication inside the first 100 days of President Biden being in workplace by the ability of narrative change content material and a nationwide coalition,” BMAC co-founder and CEO Willie “Prophet” Stiggers stated. “As a part of a name for a U.S. Fact Fee and Restorative Justice, we supported ‘17 Extra Methods You Might Be Killed If You Are Black in America’ with artists like Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Khalid and Quavo, in addition to ‘The Decision’ with activists like Billie Eilish, Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter. Regardless of the most important outcry for racial justice in our nation’s historical past, the primary 100 days of the Biden Administration handed with none racial justice coverage. We acquired no justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and the numerous different lives that had been misplaced.”
BMAC and different organizations referred to as for President Biden to make use of government actions and orders to verify a wide range of payments get handed. The payments included restoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and establishing a fee to check and take into account reparations for African People.
“On this essential election 12 months, we’re becoming a member of the pressing demand for President Biden to maneuver on government actions and government orders aligning with and supporting legislative efforts to realize racial fairness and reparative justice,” Stiggers stated. “We’ll do every little thing we will to make the most of our sources and be a real bridge between the artistic neighborhood and lawmakers to assist push this battle ahead.”
Learn the BMAC-backed letter to President Biden relating to these efforts beneath.
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