The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globe Awards, has pledged to increase its membership to at least 100 members and that at least 13 percent of its members will be Black journalists.
Hours after more than 100 top Hollywood publicists threatened to keep their clients away from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group of journalists that puts on the star-studded Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the organization finally got the message to diversify.
In response to a Monday letter from more than 100 PR firms demanding that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association provide "explicit plans" for "transformational change," the organization behind the Golden Globe Awards issued a statement emphasizing that it has gotten the message.