By Vivian KaneApr 21st, 2021, 5:45 pm
Just one week before this year’s Golden Globes ceremony, the
Los Angeles Times published the results of an investigation into the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, revealing that the organization was as corrupt as it was meaningless. The HFPA has no Black members, sells out quickly for swag and access to celebrities, and “operated as a kind of cartel, barring qualified applicants … and monopolizing all-important press access while improperly subsidizing its members’ income.”
None of this is new news but this was the year that the public finally took notice. There were a lot of reasons for that but it can’t go unmentioned that one of the final straws seemed to be the snubbing of brilliant Black-led and created shows like
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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The crisis-plagued Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the body that organises the Golden Globes, has expelled Philip Berk, its former president who sparked widespread outrage by sharing an anti-Black Lives Matter article that described the movement as a “racist hate group”.
In a brief statement, the HFPA said: “Effective immediately, Phil Berk is no longer a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.” The HFPA’s move follows outspoken criticism from NBC, the TV network that broadcasts and pays for the Golden Globes, which called for Berk’s expulsion. “NBC strongly condemns Phil Berk’s actions … [and] swift action on this front is an essential element for NBC to move forward with the HFPA and the Golden Globes.”
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) – arbiter of the entertainment industry’s Golden Globe Awards – has been mired in a spate of embarrassing scandals and.