The HFPA will also mandate annual anti-racism and unconscious bias education and sexual harassment training for all its members. A third-party law firm will review the organization's policies to"ensure we are aligned with and exceed industry best practices."
The organization, a nonprofit composed of foreign reporters and photographers who cover the entertainment industry, will also support more internships, mentorships and scholarship programs for Black and other underrepresented students interested in pursuing international journalism.awards ceremony, which went largely virtual this year amid the coronavirus pandemic and where celebrities were largely upstaged by calls for more diversity among the Hollywood foreign press.
“We are a community of storytellers, aren’t we, and in turbulent, crisis-torn times like these, story-telling has always been essential," she said. But there is another “story we’ve been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry, about which voices we respect and elevate and which we tune out, who is offered a seat at the table and who is kept out of the rooms where decisions are made," she added.Alicia Victoria Lozano
Alicia Victoria Lozano is a California-based reporter for NBC News focusing on climate change, wildfires and the changing politics of drug laws.
WHO GIVES A SHIT...RICH PEOPLE GIVING AWARDS TO OTHER RICH ARROGANT PEOPLE.. NO ONE CARES
Kind of like in Coming 2 America?
A finger or some fingers pointed; otherwise no change.
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