A civil rights complaint has been filed against Harvard University for allegedly supporting a music business program, No Label Academy, that excludes white people from participating.
Mark Perry, professor emeritus at the University of Michigan-Flint and senior fellow at the watchdog group Do No Harm, filed the complaint to the Boston Office for Civil Rights on June 1.
“[T]he University is hosting, supporting, endorsing, and partnering with a music business program in the Fall 2023 that is only open to students of color and therefore discriminates on the basis of skin color in violation of Title VI,” Perry’s complaint alleges.
According to the program’s official website, No Label Academy, created in collaboration with British-American rapper IDK, is “open to all BIPOC individuals interested in music business.” BIPOC is an acronym that stands for “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.”
After Perry filed his complaint, Harvard’s Hutchins center logo was scrubbed from the No Label Academy website in an apparent attempt to disassociate at least publicly from the program.
