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NCTA 10/22/24 Cable Industry Kicks Off Diversity Week 2024

NAACP 6/18/24 NAACP, Handy Foundation and Netflix Team Up To Support Next Generation of Hair and Makeup Artists

ReelScreen 3/28/24 Roku, Handy Foundation launch DEI initiative

Diversity in Action May 2024 Industry Disruptor: The Handy Foundation forges a pathway for diverse Hollywood creative

NextTV 3/28/24 Roku To Work With Handy Foundation To Build Diversity In Below-The-Line Jobs

MarketWatch 10/13/23 The Handy Foundation and The LatinXorcists Rewrite Hollywood Horror in Groundbreaking Partnership

Variety 9/28/23 Netflix and The Handy Foundation Launch Assistant Editor and Production Coordinator Training Program (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety 5/24/23 NBCU Sets Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives for Producers and Below-the-Line Talent in Unscripted TV

Variety 2/16/23  ‘Harlem Globetrotters: Play It Forward’ Showrunner Ri-Karlo Handy Signs With A3

Deadline 1/6/23  Ri-Karlo Handy’s Foundation Teams With California Film Commission For Inclusive Career Creation Program

LA Watts Times 12/12/22  Handy Foundation Uplifts Black Community in Hollywood

CSUN 11/17/22  The Handy Foundation Selected as Training Partner for California Film Commission’s Career Pathways Program

Medium 10/2/22  Handy Foundation hosts exclusive Hollywood screening and premiere of Harlem Globetrotters’ Play It Forward on NBC

Los Angeles Standard 7/19/22  The Handy Foundation trains people of color for behind-the-scenes jobs in the film industry

Storytelling  6/18/22  Hollywood: How a Search for Black Editors Helped Launch a Movement for Industry Equity

LA Times 7/5/21  Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a film editor

Afro News 6/23/21  Handy Foundation bridges the gap between people of color and Hollywood

LA Times 3/24/21  How new grass-roots networks are boosting diversity in Hollywood

KCRW 3/18/21  Confronting the nuances of race and real life on ‘The Bachelor’

KCRW 12/1/20  Networks pledge to diversify their reality TV shows. Do they deliver?

LA Times 8/13/20  Hollywood’s entertainment industry unions have a whiteness problem

Wave 7/30/20  New project launched to diversify Hollywood, network TV

No Script No Problem (Podcast) 7/29/20  Ri-Karlo Handy Talks Diversity in Hollywood After Facebook Post Goes Viral

Television Academy 7/23/20  REPRESENT: The African American Experiences In Post-Production

Deadline 7/2/20  Ri-Karlo Handy, Editors Guild & The Urban League Team Up With Mentorship Program For Creators Of Color

Next TV 7/2/20  Sunwise’s Handy in Effort to Push Hollywood Diversity

KCRW Interview 6/25/20  Social callout for Black editors draws attention to monochrome Hollywood

Vanity Fair 6/23/20  Behind the Viral Facebook Post That Illustrates Hollywood’s “Growing-Pain Moment”

Deadline Guest Column 6/22/20  Ri-Karlo Handy On Hollywood’s Diversity Efforts, Facebook Firestorm & New Initiatives For Real Change

Variety 6/18/20  After an Online Search for Black Union Editors Turns Racist, Filmmaker Ri-Karlo Handy Hopes for Change

LA Times 6/17/20  How a search for Black film editors caused a firestorm on Facebook

The Insider 6/17/20  High-profile white film editors tried to shut down a search for Black creators in a private Facebook group 

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