Binta Brown on the Black Music Action Coalition’s Plans to Fix ‘Fundamental Problems’

In early June, music lawyer and manager Binta Brown received a text message from her friend and Full Stop Management founder Jeffrey Azoff. Outrage over the police killings of George Floyd and other unarmed Black Americans was erupting across the nation, and Azoff wanted to know if Brown was interested in joining a group of executives he was on a call with — music lawyer Doug Davis, Columbia Records’ Shawn Holiday and Full Stop’s Damien Smith — as they figured out wh