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Shawn Holiday attends the Billboard 2018 R&B Hip-Hop Power Players event at Legacy Records on Sept. 27, 2018 in New York City.
Columbia Records co-head of urban music,
Shawn Holiday, is launching a new label and publishing venture with
Irving and
Billboard can confirm. He will maintain an A&R capacity role with Columbia.
The news was first reported by HITS Daily Double, which noted Holiday will continue to work with Polo G, Chloe x Halle and other artists signed to the label. Holiday also held a dual role at Sony/ATV, where he was named head of urban music in January 2019.
by Lee Sustar / January 23rd, 2008
The issue of race and racism emerged openly at the heart of U.S. politics in the Democratic presidential campaign in January. But as any serious student of U.S. history knows, racism is always beneath the surface of U.S. politics.
The trigger for the current debate was a comment by Sen. Hillary Clinton that “Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.” This was taken by many African American politicians and longtime activists as denigrating the entire Black liberation movement.
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Universal Music Group has appointed Dr Menna Demessie as SVP and executive director of the company’s global Task Force for Meaningful Change (TFMC).
TFMC was established in June 2020 by UMG’s Chairman and CEO, Sir Lucian Grainge, as a force for social justice in the music industry and beyond.
Dr Demessie, a political scientist and social justice advocate with a track record of civic and educational empowerment, will manage the TFMC and its activities.
The company also announced that UMG’s EVP, chief people and inclusion officer, Eric Hutcherson, will join Jeff Harleston, general counsel and EVP business & legal affairs, UMG and interim CEO, Def Jam Records, and Ethiopia Habtemariam, president, Motown Records, as a co-chair of the Task Force for Meaningful Change.