Pressure grows on Golden Globes association to include Black members
A racist post shared by a long-time board member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association caused outrage. The diversity advisor has now quit after a month on the job.
The association which runs the Golden Globes has come under fire for not having any Black members in its 87-person body
A former president of Foreign Press Association, the organization that hosts the Golden Globe awards, was dropped from the group after an email was publicized in which he shared a post calling Black Lives Matter a racist hate movement.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) announced that Philip Berk, who hails from South Africa and who had served eight terms as the board s president, was officially given the boot. Effective immediately, Phil Berk is no longer a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization wrote in a statement on Tuesday.
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