The Black Legacy Project

The Black Legacy Project is a musical celebration of Black history to advance racial solidarity, equity, and belonging.

The Black LP is a national project produced by Music in Common - a nonprofit organization that strengthens, empowers, and connects communities through the universal language - in partnership with community stakeholders at the local level. Developed in the summer of 2020 and launched in September 2021, the Black Legacy Project travels the U.S. bringing together Black and White artists and artists of ALL backgrounds to record present day interpretations of songs central to the Black American experience and compose originals relevant to the pressing calls for change of our time. Community roundtable discussions help inform how these songs are interpreted and written.  The project has launched with week-long residencies in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, Atlanta, Los Angeles, the Mississippi Delta, Denver, the Arkansas Ozarks, and Boise. A feature-length documentary film and seven-part docuseries are in production, highlighting the project and some of the many places it has traveled to. Two albums, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, feature 24 songs reimagined, written, and recorded in the project. A touring band brings the music of the project to audiences nationwide in powerful and engaging performance.