The biggest award season celebration of Black women is will be going virtual this year to honor Whoopi Goldberg, Cynthia Erivo, Zendaya, Michaela Coel and Andra Day, ESSENCE reports.
The 14th annual ESSENCE Black Women In Hollywood Awards will return as a virtual event open to the public for the first time ever — the previously star-studded event was an invite-only luncheon. Known to entertain and inspire, the awards show always ensures Black women “receive their flowers” for their many contributions to Hollywood and global culture, the article reported.
This year’s event will stream on from 7-10 p.m. Thursday, April 22 on essencestudios.com and essence.com. The 2021 event theme, “Mastering Our Stories,” will focus on the resiliency of Black women in Hollywood through the decades—including during the unprecedented pandemic.
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