Lil’ Baby will be honored with the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award at the second annual Music in Action Awards, hosted by the Black Music Action Alliance and taking place September 22 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The concert will celebrate artists, CEOs, companies, entrepreneurs, activists and companies that have used their platforms to create social change over the past year, according to BMAC.
Lil Baby will be honored for his contribution to racial and social justice within and outside the music industry. Recently, the Atlanta-born rapper hosted his third annual “Back to School” festival at Atlanta’s West End Mall. In partnership with Goodr, the event provided more than 3,000 local kids with music, games, carnival rides, food, backpacks, school supplies, and hairstyles. In addition, Lil Baby worked with Atlanta restaurateur Lemont Bradley to offer 100 jobs to young people and created the $150,000 “My Turn” scholarship program for students at his former high school. Previous winners of this award include The Weeknd and HER, who received the award at the inaugural Work Music Awards in 2021.
Music Director David Ali will receive the inaugural edition of BMAC Black: Future. Currently. prize and diverseExecutive Music Editor Shirley Halperin, along with Billboard’s CEO of R&B/hip-hop music, Gail Mitchell, will be honored with the BMAC 365 Award, a new honor given “to a person, company, or organization that has consistently enjoyed supporting social change over the course of a year.” general”.
Singer and actress “Bel Air” Coco Jones and Kenny Burns will co-host the 2022 Music in Action Awards and will feature performances from WanMor, sons of singer Wanyá Morris of Boyz II Men, who will sing the black national anthem Raise Every Voice and Sing.
The festivities will kick off September 18 with an inaugural lunch hosted by The Revels Group, along with Amazon Music, Patrón and BMAC, to honor “the young black CEOs, creators, and artists who are paving the way for generations to come.”
As previously announced, BMAC will also honor John “Big John” Platt, Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Publishing, with the Clarence Avant Trailblazer Award. Kevin Liles, CEO of 300 Entertainment, along with Amazon Music and the Recording Academy will be honored with the BMAC Social Impact Award. Journalist Nicole Hannah Jones and attorney and author Brittany K. Barnett and Joy Brown of Culture Creators will receive the BMAC Change Agent Award. Finally, Congresswoman Maxine Waters will receive the inaugural BMAC Icon Award.
BMAC Co-Founder and Co-President Karon Wiese said, “The BMAC Music In Action Awards are the only awards of their kind in the music industry. It is a wonderful event where we come together not to celebrate our individual accomplishments, but to celebrate what the honorees have given and done to others. in which we all walk toward racial and social justice have long, and been hard, certainly not easy. So an evening out to highlight those who have given themselves to make way for someone else is a welcome break on the highway to equality.”
For more information about the Black Music Action Alliance and the Music in Action Awards, please visit bmacoalition.org.
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