Hollywood Losing $10 Billion Annually to Racial Inequality, New Study Shows

Universal Studios Hollywood will reopen on Friday, April 16. Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 8, the park announced today. There will be a special park preview for annual and season pass members starting on Thursday, April 15.

LOS ANGELES -- Whoopi Goldberg, Andra Day and Zendaya will be among the honorees at this year's Essence Black Women in Hollywood event, which will be livestreamed during Oscars week for the first time this year.Essence on Tuesday announced the honorees for the 14th annual ceremony on April 22.In addition to the Emmy-, Grammy-, Oscar- and Tony-winner Goldberg and “Euphoria” star Zendaya, they include actor, singer and songwriter Cynthia Erivo and actor Michaela Coel.Day, who is up for an Oscar a

Transgender people are over four times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than their cisgender counterparts, according to a new study from the Williams Institute.

independent country if they knew membership of the European Union was guaranteed. The survey, conducted by Survation, shows that 53 per cent of the more than 2,000 people asked would agree to separation from the UK if joining the EU was granted.

A new poll of 900 Californians shows embattled governor Gavin Newsom narrowly beating the recall vote he seems almost certain to face this fall.

Sesame Workshop is offering new resources to families to help make it easier to talk about race and racism with kids.

Orlando Bloom has revealed that he thinks he and fiancé Katy Perry don't have enough sex, since the birth of their daughter Daisy Dove last summer. Speaking candidly in a recent interview with The Guardian, The Lord of the Rings star revealed that the engaged couple are suffering from the same plight as most new parents — explaining that since their daughter's birth last August, romance has more or less gone out of the window.

Finally wearing white? Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom fueled speculation that they were secretly married when the singer was spotted wearing a gold ring on Tuesday, March 16.

Finally wearing white? Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom fueled speculation that they were secretly married when the singer was spotted wearing a gold ring on Tuesday, March 16.

Chris Willman Music WriterGlobal revenue for recorded music had a significant bump in 2020, growing by 7% despite the pandemic, according to a new study released by Midia Research.That came despite a second quarter where revenue was down by 3% from the year before, as music took a hit as quarantining kicked in. By the fourth quarter of 2020, though, revenue growth from year-to-year was up a remarkable 15%, more than making up for those earlier losses.

coronavirus lockdown and fears over the Brexit deal’s insufficient support for touring musicians is taking an unprecedented toll on the mental health of musicians in the UK.New research conducted by the charity Help Musicians, who surveyed over 700 musicians across the UK for the study, found that 87 per cent of respondents said their mental health had deteriorated over the past year.59 per cent of musicians said that their worries about the impact of Brexit on the music industry had compounded

As Hollywood companies and affiliated organizations scramble to hire diversity experts and strategists as part of their public commitments to inclusion, management consulting powerhouse McKinsey & Co. has applied its analytic expertise to the industry as a whole in a report diagnosing the experience of Black professionals working in entertainment.

from consulting firm McKinsey & Company, says it arrived at that $10 billion figure “based on closing the representation deficit for Black off-screen talent, achieving production and marketing budget parity, and giving Black-led properties equal international distribution”As things currently stand, the problem is that existing inequalities have resulted in “fewer Black-led stories” being told, and in those projects being “consistently underfunded and undervalued, despite often earning higher

When it comes to diversity, inclusion and representation, Hollywood is far from where it needs to be, but we are seeing progress. However, there are many blind spots that have been overlooked and cracks in the foundation that are growing bigger and bigger each day. If it doesn’t fix them, the industry will have more problems than it can repair — one of them being the undervaluing of Black-led projects.

Adrienne Bailon Houghton and her husband, Israel Houghton, in New York, where the daytime TV talk show host dished on making our dreams a reality. Adrienne revealed that she's all for her cheetah sister, Raven-Symoné, co-hosting on .«I mean, I would love that, obviously 'cause she's my cheetah sister,» Adrienne gushed.

Netflix is doubling down on docusoaps.

Thursday March 11 will mark one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. To mark the grim anniversary, NBC News has set a primetime special, to be anchoredfrom the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, and Today co-anchor SavannahGuthrie.

#IWD2021 the results show that for women in music there is little to celebrate. As artists, songwriters, and producers women are outnumbered on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts & have been for 9 years.