YouTube announced a global slate of new and returning projects dedicated to amplifying Black voices and highlighting racial justice issues, including five new projects from its recently announced $…
“Race has never been an easy issue to confront but the events over the last few months have opened up doors of dialogue and action that had once seemed closed,” Malik Ducard, YouTube’s VP of content partnerships, said in announcing the slate. “Across YouTube, we have a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to contribute to these conversations about racial justice in a meaningful way.”
According to YouTube, it will continue to invest funds from the $100 million Black voices fund over the next three years to acquire and produce original programming with the aim of directly supporting Black creators and artists on YouTube. The first project from the fund was June’s a livestreamed special hosted by Common and Keke Palmer focused on racial justice issues that featured discussion panels, musical tributes and more.: 12-episode documentary series follows the grassroots work of multicultural and intersectional organizations fighting the Los Angeles County’s $3.5 billion jail expansion plan in 2018 and examines the issues of cash bail, unlawful arrest, over-policing of Black and brown neighborhoods, and mass incarceration.
Below are upcoming and returning YouTube originals developed prior to the launch of YouTube’s Black content fund that also center on the global Black experience and address racial justice:: Four-part docuseries following the journey of the two founders of YouTube channel Grime Daily, which grew from a platform to showcase emerging Black hip-hop and rap artists in the U.K. to today’s GRM Daily a multimedia conglomerate complete with a recording label and awards show.
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