Black Legacy Project
PROJECTS:
The Black Legacy Project is a musical celebration of Black history to advance racial solidarity, equity, and belonging.
The Black LP is a national project produced by Music in Common - a nonprofit that strengthens, empowers, and connects communities through the universal language - in partnership with community stakeholders at the local level. From September 2021 through June 2023, it launched in seven communities across the U.S. including the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Atlanta, Los Angeles, the Mississippi Delta, Denver, the Arkansas Ozarks, and Boise. In each community, the project brought together Black and White artists and artists of ALL backgrounds to record present day interpretations of songs central to the Black American experience and compose originals relevant to the pressing calls for change of our time. Community roundtable discussions helped inform how these songs were interpreted and written. A docuseries is in production with a new episode from each community to which the Black Legacy Project traveled. In total, 24 songs have been recorded for the project and the first Black LP album will be released on September 22, 2023. A touring band will hit the road beginning in September to bring the Black LP Experience to communities nationwide.
In addition to this powerful and inspiring musical celebration, the tour can include film screenings of the Black Legacy Project docuseries, community conversations, roundtable discussions, and school programs.
PRESS:
The Black Legacy Project has been featured on CNN, New England Public Media, Colorado Public Radio, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, NBC, and more.
“This is a really innovative way to approach topics difficult to talk about and through those conversations bring about change”
CNN
“You’ve [Music in Common] done amazing work in over 300 communities helping repair these fractures”
New England Public Media
“Groundbreaking racial equity project”
Berkshire Eagle
“You always learn something when you come to a Music in Common show”
WSBS Radio
