Submissions Open for Beats Black Creators Program

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04 MAY 2022 - Apple subsidiary Beats is taking applications for its Beats Black Creators Program 2022. Geared toward current students or recent grads of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this year offers two courses of study: One for Content Creators and one for Customs Creators. For the first, they’re giving filmmakers, script writers, photographers, videographers, and the like the goal of producing “a curated content piece to be showcased on Beats’ social channels.” For the second, the program is giving illustrators, digital artists, fashion designers, painters, mixed-media artists, and so on the goal of “gathering and presenting insights that lead to a final headphone and packaging design for [Beats 2022 custom products].” 

And I don’t think it costs attendees anything. The site for the course says:

The three-month paid program provides current HBCU students or recent graduates from HBCUs the opportunity to get hands-on experience that incubates their creative expression and talents while being mentored by industry leaders.

I assume “paid program” means they’re paying participants, not participants are paying. How horrible would it be for a multi-billion-dollar company to ask a bunch of people fresh out of college to take on more debt?

Applications for the program are open now. They close on 16 May. Though the site says it’s a three-month program, it also says the program kicks off on 20 June and ends on 31 October. 

Eh. Clarity’s overrated.