What is Blackout Tuesday and how can you participate in a helpful way?

If you’ve noticed your Instagram feed full of black squares, there’s a reason behind it.

It might seem like a straightforward moment of solidarity, but it gets a little bit complicated when you consider the whole picture. In a nutshell: It's a music industry initiative that's been picked up by the public (myself included) on Instagram as posts showing just a black square, which have been flagged as potentially unhelpful by some activists as they currently appear. But there are ways to post helpfully if you want to participate.

So, what is Blackout Tuesday?

Blackout Tuesday is day of action across the music industry, which sprang from an initiative created by Atlantic Records' senior director of marketing Jamila Thomas and former senior director of marketing Brianna Agyemang, called #TheShowMustBePaused, "in observance of the long-standing racism and inequality that exists from the boardroom to the boulevard" in the industry."  Read more...

More about Instagram, Black Lives Matter, Social Media, Social Good, and Activism

from Social Media https://ift.tt/3eGa2RC
via IFTTT