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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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