Golden Globes group distances itself from former president s email labeling Black Lives Matter a racist hate movement yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Olafimihan Oshin - 04/20/21 11:28 AM EDT
The former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association sent an email calling Black Lives Matter a racist movement, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.
The former president of the association that hands out the Golden Globes awards, Phil Berk, also described Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, as a “self-proclaimed ‘trained Marxist” in the email, which the Times reported was sent to the press association s members, staff and its general counsel and chief operating officer, Gregory Goeckner.
Berk, who had served eight terms as president of the organization, also shared an article titled “BLM Goes Hollywood in the email. Berk did not cite the source for the story, but it came from conservative commentator David Horowitz’s Freedom Center website, FrontPage Mag, according to the Times.
Philip Berk, Longtime HFPA Member, Expelled for Racist Email
Berk had been a member of the organization for 44 years and served eight terms as its president.
Philip Berk, a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the past 44 years and an eight-term past president of the group behind the Golden Globe Awards, has been expelled from its membership two days after emailing an article to his fellow members that described Black Lives Matter as a racist hate movement and slammed its co-founder,
Patrisse Cullors, for purchasing a home in Topanga Canyon. Effective immediately, Phil Berk is no longer a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the HFPA s board said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
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