HFPA Responds to Former President s Email Criticizing Black Lives Matter Movement
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has issued a statement following an email sent by its former president calling the Black Lives Matter organization “a hate movement.”
The L.A. Times published an article on Monday detailing the email, which was reportedly sent on Sunday. According to the Times, former HFPA president and current member Phil Berk sent a message to the HFPA’s members quoting an article that called the Black Lives Matter organization a “racist hate movement” and singled out its co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, as a “self-proclaimed trained Marxist.” Several HFPA members responded in objection to the email.