Film Academy Launches Conversation Series on Race and Gender Equity

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Recording Academy has announced the launch of its Black Music Collective, which it describes as a group of prominent Black music creators and professionals who share the common goal of amplifying Black voices within the Academy and the music community.The move is part of a wider diversity initiative by the Academy announced earlier this year, which includes the hiring of Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Valeisha Butterfield Jones and a partnership with and $1

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Lee Daniels, Lulu Wang and Taraji P. Henson are among the talent participating in a series of virtual panels about inclusion and equity in Hollywood hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWhoopi Goldberg, Lee Daniels, Marvel executive Victoria Alonso and more Hollywood heavyweights are on board for a new virtual conversation series from the the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The series, titled “Academy Dialogues: It Starts With Us,” is part of the group’s Aperture 2025 equity and inclusion initiative.

online now.Other panelists included in the series are Victoria Alonso, Lisa Cortés, Debra Martin Chase, Carmen Cuba, DeVon Franklin, Nadia Hallgren, Taraji P.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is taking part of its Academy Aperture 2025 initiative public by expanding its in-house “Academy Dialogues: It Starts With Us” conversation series to include access not only for their entire membership, but also the public which of course includes a larger swath of the non-member industry members as well.

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