Creative Equity Toolkit

Too many diversity initiatives are neglecting junior Black employees. We can fix that

Four suggestions for success where other diversity programs have failed.

Towards a racially just workplace

Overcoming 'the illusion of inclusion'. This article sets out three key guidelines for a better approach to diversity - learning lessons from diversity efforts that have failed in the USA. It's a long and broad overview that covers work issues at all levels.

Unseen. Unheard. Race and Disability - Black disabled experience in the UK's music industry

Black Lives in Music's 2021 survey revealed Black disabled people working in the UK music industry face pronounced challenges for opportunities and funding; 91% of survey respondents are dissatisfied with current levels of industry support.

The report includes calls to action to address this in the areas of Representation, Consultation and Commitment.

Utilizing the Arts to Support Racial Justice

One of the United States' leading audience development strategists Donna Walker-Khune in conversation with Michelle Taylor the founder of the artist management company, Passion Music Group.

This inspiring conversation has a lot of educational resources and traces the history and background of The Blacksmiths, a creative coalition committed to using the arts to support racial justice movements and engaging with people of colour and the broader community in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Watch now: Using First Nations Protocols for Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts

Lucy Byrne with Patricia Adjei, Dr Paula Abood, Travis De Vries and Jake Smithers as they discuss the First Nations Protocols. Together they highlight the importance of everyone understanding these Protocols to ensure care of First Nations Intellectual Property through appropriate permissions, acknowledgement and consent. This discussion illustrates how everyone can be an ally in holding these Protocols up to accomplish safe consultation and consent when using First Nation stories & knowledge.

We and AI Response to the Race and Ethnic Disparities Report 2021

A negative example of working practices within a consultation process by government body. We and AI address the specific ways in which they believe their contribution to a report on race was misused by the UK government.