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Love Music Hate Racism Special Episode Features Vice Chair of the MU EDI Committee

To celebrate Black History Month, Love Music Hate Racism have hosted a special episode of their #SpeakUpThursday radio show, featuring Chardine Taylor Stone.

Published: 22 October 2021 | 1:31 PM Updated: 27 October 2021 | 3:43 PM
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Chardine is an activist, writer, a member of rock band Big Joanie, a trustee of London’s Black Women’s Project as well as the vice-chair of the MU Equalities Committee. Photo credit: Shutterstock

The special episode of Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR)’s #SpeakUpThursday radio show features Chardine Taylor Stone (the MU’s Vice Chair of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Big Joanie, Black feminist activist and writer) and Weyman Bennett (co-founder of LMHR). You can listen to the show now on LMHR’s SoundCloud.

We’ve also partnered up with LMHR to publish a blog ‘Rock Against Racism, Love Music Hate Racism, and the fight against racism today’.

For more information, visit our page on representing musicians who experience racism.

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MU Attends All Party Group on Arts at Stormont

At the All Party Ground on Arts that was held at Stormont at the end of November, MU Acting Regional Organiser for Scotland and Northern Ireland Sam Dunkley heard reports on two strategies that will be out for consultation in the spring.

Published: 07 December 2023

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