public relations
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Walk It Like You Talk It: Hollywood Publicists Threaten to Pull Clients From All HFPA Press Until Plans to Diversify Are Shown
Growing up, there were two pieces of advice that always stuck with me: Don’t leave one nest until you have another one built and don’t write a check with your mouth that your ass can’t cash. (The latter essentially means that you better be ready to back up what you say with some sort of…
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Ray Fisher and Jason Momoa Claim Warner Bros. Is Using 'PR Tactics' to Distract From Work Abuse Investigation
Ray Fisher’s public battle with Warner Bros. seems to be heating up. As background, the 33-year-old actor who portrayed Cyborg in the studio’s Justice League film claimed back in June that the film’s director Joss Whedon engaged in “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” conduct on set when Whedon took over for the film’s original…
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If You Want to Protect Black Art, Protect Black Critique
I will never forget the day my skin thickened. I was a baby-faced undergrad student sitting in a circle of my literary peers, awaiting my academic doom, also known as the “writing workshop.” My heart raced with an urgent fury and my stomach twisted into a knot only an Eagle Scout could untie. There I…
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Inez Y. Kaiser, 1st Black Woman to Own National Public Relations Firm, Dies at 98
Today, black-women-owned public relations firms are plentiful. But in the late 1950s, there was only one—the first one. Inez Yeargan Kaiser, the 98-year-old pioneer who was the first black woman in the U.S. to own a P.R. firm, has died. She was 98 years old. Kaiser, who began her business in public relations after teaching…