Over the weekend, Universal Music Group chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge announced the company would convene a social justice task force in the wake of nationwide protests prompted by the May 25 killing of George Floyd.
On Thursday (June 4), the company detailed a first course of action for that task force in a memo sent to staff and obtained by Billboard.Dubbed the Task Force for Meaningful Change, the group will be co-chaired by UMG executive vp, general counsel and Def Jam interim chairman and CEO Jeff Harleston and Motown Records president and Capitol Music Group executive vp Ethiopia Habtemariam, with 30 other UMG employees serving as members.“Task Force for Meaningful Change (TFMC) was created as a driving force for the ongoing fight.