As Hollywood continues its ongoing fight for increased diversity and representation across the industry, disability is rarely included. Entrepreneur and disability activist Keely Cat-Wells is teaming up with major Hollywood figures […]
“Fifty-three years ago, a racist White man killed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis,” writes Peter Cole in The Washington Post. “King’s presence there was no coincidence. The city’s predominantly Black sanitation workers were on […]
This week, the Native American Media Alliance and its partners announced selected fellows for the 6th annual Native American TV Writers Lab. Founded in 2016, the Native American TV Writers Lab is an intensive TV scriptwriting workshop […]
The 2021 NAACP Image Awards announced this year’s winners across more than 60 categories in streaming presentations across five nights ahead of the awards’ live show on BET and CBS on Saturday. On Saturday night it named […]
Since a February 21 Times investigation highlighted the fact that the 87-member group of international journalists that hands out the Golden Globes has no Black members, the HFPA has been embroiled in a controversy unlike anything […]
A group of women suing the Walt Disney Company for pay discrimination has expanded its claims against the Burbank-based studio to include allegations of pay secrecy at the company. In its fourth amended complaint, filed […]
Jeffrey Wells, the veteran film industry commentator who has long operated the widely read blog Hollywood Elsewhere, has been indefinitely suspended by the Critics Choice Association, the group of journalists that presents the annual Critics […]
Brown is the longest tenured employee at the Michigan AFL-CIO. She is a committed union activist and serves as steward for the staff union, OPEIU. Brown is integral to all the operations of the state labor federation. She is always quick with […]
After graduation from college, Lippert-Kendall found success in the building trades. She successfully completed the Registered Apprenticeship Program with the Heat and Frost Insulators and works as a mechanic. The member of Local 2 leads […]
In a letter addressed to HFPA COO Greg Goecker and Board Chair Meher Tatna, a collective of Hollywood publicists on Monday warned the group it had better make meaningful changes, or risk them telling their star clients to stay away […]
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