BLACMEX, the UK’s first Black Music Export Office, has called on the government to commit to funding support.

In an open letter here to the Prime Minister, as well as the Secretary of State for both Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the organisation said that “Black British music is one of the United Kingdom’s most powerful global assets”.

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