“The View” host Sunny Hostin had to make a surprise wardrobe change at Essence Fest this year, after showing up in the same outfit as Vice President Kamala Harris. According to the ABC host, the VP’s team asked her to change, so they wouldn’t match on stage.
After a weeklong hiatus to kick off the month of July, the hosts returned on Monday and, naturally, started the day’s Hot Topics by recapping how they spent their vacation. For Hostin, it was mostly still work, just elsewhere. She was asked to moderate a conversation with Harris for Essence Fest, which she immediately accepted.
But, as she told her co-hosts about it, she pulled up a photo from the event and revealed that she originally showed up in a similar white suit as Harris.
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After a weeklong hiatus to kick off the month of July, the hosts returned on Monday and, naturally, started the day’s Hot Topics by recapping how they spent their vacation. For Hostin, it was mostly still work, just elsewhere. She was asked to moderate a conversation with Harris for Essence Fest, which she immediately accepted.
But, as she told her co-hosts about it, she pulled up a photo from the event and revealed that she originally showed up in a similar white suit as Harris.
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- 7/10/2023
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
Before last year’s televised Grammys ceremony began, the award show had already garnered viral attention for its use of Asl interpreters on the red carpet.
An accessibility measure rarely presented during the entertainment industry’s major awards shows, the presence of the sign language interpreters was the byproduct of more than a year’s worth of conversations between the Recording Academy and Recording Artists and Music Professionals With Disabilities (Rampd), a global network of artists who consult and advise around disability inclusion and accessibility for the music and events industry.
Those conversations started informally roughly a year earlier when Edm artist and Grammys New York board governor Lachi connected with Valeisha Butterfield Jones, the Recording Academy’s then vp of diversity, equity and inclusion. The two were on a panel exploring how the Academy could support artists within the larger disability community as Lachi, a Black female musician who...
An accessibility measure rarely presented during the entertainment industry’s major awards shows, the presence of the sign language interpreters was the byproduct of more than a year’s worth of conversations between the Recording Academy and Recording Artists and Music Professionals With Disabilities (Rampd), a global network of artists who consult and advise around disability inclusion and accessibility for the music and events industry.
Those conversations started informally roughly a year earlier when Edm artist and Grammys New York board governor Lachi connected with Valeisha Butterfield Jones, the Recording Academy’s then vp of diversity, equity and inclusion. The two were on a panel exploring how the Academy could support artists within the larger disability community as Lachi, a Black female musician who...
- 2/6/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Valeisha Butterfield Jones, co-president of the Recording Academy, is exiting the company after just less than a year in the role to return to a new role at her previous company Google. The Grammy organizer confirmed the news Friday.
Butterfield Jones had joined the Recording Academy in May 2020 as its first Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. In November 2021 she was promoted to co-president alongside Panos A. Panay as part of an executive restructuring at the organization led by CEO Harvey Mason Jr.
She had come to the music academy from Google, where she had been the global head of inclusion. She will return to Google as VP Partnerships, with that role to start in October.
According to Billboard, after Butterfield Jones’ exit Panay will take on all president roles and her position will not be filled for now.
“This is a bittersweet moment for our Recording Academy family,” Mason said in a statement today.
Butterfield Jones had joined the Recording Academy in May 2020 as its first Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. In November 2021 she was promoted to co-president alongside Panos A. Panay as part of an executive restructuring at the organization led by CEO Harvey Mason Jr.
She had come to the music academy from Google, where she had been the global head of inclusion. She will return to Google as VP Partnerships, with that role to start in October.
According to Billboard, after Butterfield Jones’ exit Panay will take on all president roles and her position will not be filled for now.
“This is a bittersweet moment for our Recording Academy family,” Mason said in a statement today.
- 8/12/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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