Gunna and the Black Music Action Coalition have announced a new initiative that will provide a monthly stipend of $1,000 to over two dozen families in the rapper’s hometown for one year. Named the Gunna x BMAC 30349 Guaranteed Income Program, it will choose grantees in the specific zip code in the city of South Fulton, Georgia, right outside Atlanta. Recipients will also receive mentorship across music, film, fashion, and tech. Families can apply online.
The program is being facilitated by Gunna’s Great Giveaway Foundation in partnership with BMAC, a non-profit group of artists, songwriters, managers, producers, lawyers, and other music executives that began racial justice work after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor sparked a social movement against anti-Blackness. “BMAC’s mission to achieve systemic equity must begin with economic justice,” said Willie “Prophet” Stiggers, the organization’s Co-Founder, President and CEO. “Black Americans are too often locked out of critical opportunities and pathways to climb the socioeconomic ladder despite being central to every cultural and financial movement in this country’s history.”