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Morgan Malone: “Everyone won’t care the same way you do”

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She is a founder of the Chicago Neighborhood Development Collective, a group of young Black Chicagoans who care about the poorest South and West Side neighborhoods; the Black Chicago Jobs Board, a career listserv; and created Resisting in Place, a nationwide project to encourage work that reflects the Black experience.

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Andrea Aicardi: “Knowing that you’re working towards a greater good is a very good ‘stabilizer’ that has helped me find the balance time and time again”

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In his free time Andrea produces techno music under the moniker of Sentient. Neosensory is currently focusing on hearing: we recently launched a breakthrough solution to help the 50 millions Americans who struggle with ringing in their ears. As a music producer and DJ, I struggled with tinnitus for a number of years?

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Danny Greenberg of Bridges and Tunnels: ” It means nothing if you don’t enjoy who you do it with”

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As a part of our series about rising music stars , I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Danny Greenberg of Bridges & Tunnels. The band lives by their mission of using music and narrative to connect people to things we all have in common. We had the privilege to play the Montauk Music Festival in 2019.

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Miles Cooley of CMNTY Culture: “Be in service”

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One afternoon, a senior music law partner who had just joined the firm called me into his office and asked if I’d like to help him on a case for a burgeoning hip-hop star who had been sued by an extra on a music video shoot. CMNTY Culture RCRDS, for recorded music and we have two amazing artists on our roster so far?—?RMR

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“Feel empathy”, Beth Chandler of YW Boston and Parveen Panwar, Mr. Activated

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I think those stories resonated with me because I often felt that way as a queer black girl growing up in a predominantly white town pre-LGBTQ. I think an appropriate analogy is that of a musical conductor. Leadership looked at the data and confirmed that few, in any, Black women were assigned to such projects.

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Lindsay Rae: “Get rid of corporate and school dress codes”

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I listen to music about success and I do vision work. Black women we see you, we honor you, we thank you. Shop Black, buy local and buy woman owned at least once a month! Where you could easily walk into a Macys instead go to a Black Woman owned boutique and support her. Representation matters! Invest in diversity!

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Filmmaker Keithian D. Sammons: “Not including diversity in Film and TV is like orphaning people from the world and their culture”

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He then moved to Apple Music, where he was a Global Creative Producer creating branded content and docu series for the platform. I was telling a music producer friend about how I wanted to start doing films and he listened. They were two wealthy African American brothers executed in 1913 for a murder that they did not commit.