The two-day virtual event will feature H.E.R., Estelle, Leslie Odom Jr. and many more   NEW YORK, March 5, 2021 – ADCOLOR, the premier organization dedicated to celebrating and promoting professionals of color and diversity in the creative industries, today unveiled details for its first-ever ADCOLOR in Music event. The virtual, two-day gathering will take […]

Registration for the virtual event, ADCOLOR Everywhere, will go live August 12th   NEW YORK, July 28, 2020 — ADCOLOR, the premier organization dedicated to celebrating and promoting professionals of color and diversity in the creative industries, today announced the nominees and honorees for the 14th Annual ADCOLOR Awards. Since 2007, the ADCOLOR Awards have highlighted and […]

Introducing, ADCOLOR Inside: A Lunch and Learn Series Every Thursday at 1:30 PM ET   In the advent of staying inside the confines of our home, ADCOLOR is launching ADCOLOR Inside, a video series that gives people an inside look into some of the panel discussions from last year’s conference. Viewers will have the chance […]

Nominations for the 14th Annual ADCOLOR Awards open on March 16th, 2020 Presented by Facebook, Google|YouTube and Omnicom Group NEW YORK, NY (March 10, 2020) – ADCOLOR, the premier organization dedicated to celebrating and promoting professionals of color and diversity in the creative industries, today announced ADCOLOR 2020 will be hosted, for the first time, […]

By The ADCOLOR Content Team ——— As marginalized groups continue mobilizing to have their truths and stories told, the importance of allyship has emerged as a regular subject in inclusion discussions. To expound on this important conversation, ADCOLOR and Jason Rosario (Founder, The Lives of Men) explored male allyship by asking the fundamental question—How can […]

By Akintayo Adewole, photographer and cinematographer ——— “Taking a stand” isn’t a new idea or a foreign concept. It’s a choice; an important choice that often few choose to make, usually out of ignorance, fear or indifference… but when we stand up for what we know is right, it helps others find the courage to […]

by Brandon Lee Heard, 2018 ADCOLOR Future Alumnus, Strategist at R/GA, and Black Afro-Latinx (He, Him, His) ——— There are more than 58.8 million Latinx people living in the United States. According to the US Census Bureau, that number is projected to double by 2060 comprising for nearly 30% of the total population. This multilingual, […]

By Nayantara Dutta, Content Strategist, McCann Worldgroup and Editorial Pod Co-Lead, ADCOLOR Content Team ——— This year at ADCOLOR, we’ve been creating spaces to have critical conversations about different types of identity. We may all come from different backgrounds, but we recognize that there are important shared experiences that bring us together within and across […]

By Cole Habersham, ADCOLOR Content Team ——— In addition to the ADCOLOR mission to rise up and reach back, every ADCOLOR conference comes with a theme to center our community around a core message. Last year’s Moment of Truth theme focused on the past and implored attendees to imagine and decide what they want their […]

By Brandon Lee Heard, 2018 ADCOLOR Future Alumnus ——— In an era of meeting deadlines, hitting quotas, and winning pitches, we have adopted a model around the way we work with people. The model goes something like this: get it done. We’re so wrapped up in the hustle n’ bustle that interactions within the workplace […]