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Hollywood Foreign Press Association Appoints 6 New Black Members

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Hollywood Foreign Press Association has just accepted its largest and most diverse class of new members in its 78-year history.

The nonprofit organization, an international collection of journalists and photographers that serve as the voting body which selects the nominees and winners of the annual Golden Globes honors, recently caught flack for having zero Black members on its 87-member board.

Ava DuVernay, alongside several other figures of Black Hollywood, called the organization to task on its lack of diversity after the Times Up Investigation revealed the Association’s omission of Black members.My two cents.

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