Continuing on their efforts towards inclusivity, the Recording Academy has teamed up with racial justice organization Color of Change to create the #ChangeMusic Roadmap, which they describe as "an initiative that aims to create racial justice within the music industry."

The project acknowledges the longtime undervaluing of Black contributions to the music industry, and carves out guidelines for individuals and organizations to move toward racial justice and inclusion, to "shift the culture of the industry at large," and to ensure greater equity by increasing Black representation across the board. Here's more in their Statement of Purpose:

To work to increase the number of Black people and other underrepresented groups in key roles in the Academy, our affiliates and across the broader industry (i.e. voting members, musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals). This requires efforts that will not only increase greater equity through diversity and inclusion but will also ensure representation of Black people and people of color in decision making positions. By doing so, we shift the culture of the industry at large.

To ensure greater equity by increasing representation of Black people and other underrepresented groups in critical roles throughout the broader music industry. Achieving this goal first requires a commitment to full transparency, which begins with data outlining the number of Black people and people of color in crucial roles to determine where there is underrepresentation. Further, this greater transparency must include an intersectional analysis of data that takes into account gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and age where possible to effectively address true diversity and inclusion.

To identify and dismantle systemic barriers to representation and equitable treatment of Black people and other under-represented groups across the industry. This too requires a commitment to transparency and self-examination by those who currently hold power in the industry to identify the key shortcomings in the industry’s treatment of Black people

"In a year of uprising, sickness, and distance, music has been both a healing force and a call to action," Color of Change President Rashad Robinson said. "It’s helped us process our pain and drive social change. This moment offers an unparalleled opportunity to change patterns of exclusion and degradation and take action toward progress. To honor and amplify Black artists’ past, present, and future contributions, the music industry must tear down the barriers that have been up for far too long. #ChangeMusic is our first step."

"Change cannot wait," Chair and Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy Harvey Mason Jr. says. "We believe this #ChangeMusic Roadmap will be key to driving progress in the Academy and the music industry. It was developed over the last few months with the goal of holding ourselves accountable. The roadmap is intended to serve as an important tool to support the changes we must urgently make together in music. This is a new era of the Recording Academy and we won’t stop until the work is done. The Recording Academy and Color of Change invite our peers and partners to join us on this transformational journey."