Miguel, Denzel Curry, Dev Hynes to Perform at ‘Black Power Live’ Event Hosted by Patrisse Cullors

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOn July 9, the same day that Live Nation Entertainment was sued by a furloughed executive claiming race and gender discrimination, the company’s CEO Michael Rapino posted an open letter to employees across the world promising greater diversity in the years to come, along with a $10 million investment to “focus on developing, promoting and hiring Black and underrepresented talent.”With 2025 as a target date, the document pledges to double the overall percentage of

As the search for Naya Rivera’s body continues at Lake Piru, her mother and brother visited the location she was last seen.

As the search for Naya Rivera’s body continues at Lake Piru, her mother and brother visited the location she was last seen.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety’s first virtual invite-only Power of Law event, presented by City National Bank, will be held on July 15. Variety Power of Law is tied to the annual Legal Impact Report, which profiles the top attorneys working in entertainment and media.

Fans are sending out positive thoughts after it was reported that Naya Rivera had gone missing during a boating trip.

coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matters protests. “At its base, equality is about power: equal access to it, equal treatment by it and equal control over it,” Blow said in a statement.

GAIKA arrived on the UK music scene, the Brixton-based MC made it his mission to continuously subvert preconceptions about what Black British music can be. His debut album ‘Basic Volume’ demonstrated this, featuring dancehall riddims distilled through gritty, industrial beats.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Comcast’s European broadcaster Sky has taken full control of Love Productions, the producer behind Channel 4 hit The Great British Bake Off.Sky took a 70.41% stake in Love Productions in 2014, and now the pay-TV operator has acquired the remaining 29.59% of shares in the Richard McKerrow-founded outfit, as it continues to build its production empire.Jane Millichip, Sky Studios’ chief commercial officer, said: “Love Productions is a world-class

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani's adorable romance is on full display in a new live music video for their hit duet "Nobody But You."Blake shared the video on his Instagram, captioning it, "Man, I am a lucky guy."Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani may be chart-toppers in the music scene... but their chemistry? Well, that's off the charts in this brand new live music video for their No.

Ruth Negga was raised in Limerick, Ireland before moving to London to study and then onward to Los Angeles. However, it wasn’t until London that the actress said she really experienced racism.

Chad Michael Murray, 38, just wished his former One Tree Hill co-star Hilarie Burton, 38, a happy birthday — and fans are dying! The actress, who portrayed Peyton Sawyer on the beloved early 2000s show, celebrated her birthday in quarantine on July 1. She received plenty of love from friends and fans alike on social media, including a sweet tribute from her on-screen husband.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMusic and sports — arguably the two forms of mainstream entertainment hardest hit by the pandemic lockdown — will get some succor on Sunday when ESPN will air its first-ever concert: the Eagles’ “Live from the Forum MMXVIII.”For those whose roman-numeral-translation skills are lacking, the concert dates from 2018, when the group was on an extensive North American tour that found core members Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterCommon, Questlove and Lila Downs are among the artists performing at the 2020 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, which has been reinvented this year as an “immersive, virtual multi-platform destination.” For 41 years, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival has presented a wide variety of artists across all genres, along with dance troups, film projects and more.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe organizers of the 20th annual BET Awards know all too well that 2020 is both different from past years and, sadly, not different enough — and the show kicked off on Sunday night in fiery fashion with a song that sums up both 31 years ago and now: an incendiary new version of Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” that featured new verses from Nas, YG, the Roots’ Black Thought, Rapsody joining Chuck D and Flava Flav’s classic original lines, accompanied by guest DJ

Celebs were keeping busy this week, from Katy Perry preparing to put on a special live concert on BeApp for a good cause, to Rose Byrne, Nicole Kidman, Danielle Macdonald and more welcoming guests to the virtual premiere of Babyteeth, to Scarlett Johansson looking stylish in The Hamptons.

Kendrick Sampson has penned a powerful open letter calling for the Hollywood industry to divest from the police and make big changes to «affirm, defend and invest in Black lives.» The star wrote the letter alongside actress Tessa Thompson and Black Lives Matter cofounders Patrisse Cullors and Melina Abdullah.More than 300 Black artists and executives have signed the letter, including Idris Elba, Kerry Washington, Michael B. Jordan, Queen Latifah, Sterling K.