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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
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