Ross. Rihanna doled out hugs and airtight photos with adolescent girls.
This high-profile accumulation of singers, actors and cultural abstracts had aggregate actuality on Friday night for the awards actualization for Atramentous Girls Rock!, the alignment that ceremoniousness atramentous women for their aesthetic and altruistic achievements. This year it is adulatory its 10th anniversary.
The atmosphere of the awards actualization is allotment celebration, allotment ancestors reunion, and offers a moment to pause. Started in 2006, the nonprofit accumulation seeks to empower and coach atramentous girls while announcement the arts and arduous the often-negative and academic means in which women of blush are portrayed in the media by captivation up a altered mirror. In 2010 it began captivation a televised awards actualization with BET; Friday’s accident will be advertisement on Tuesday.
“Black women are application spaces that we didn’t before, and adulatory ourselves unapologetically,” Beverly Bond, the organization’s founder, said in a blast interview. “To see all of our altruistic contributions not getting accustomed or acclaimed didn’t sit able-bodied with me.”
Since its inception, the advertisement has accustomed a agenda of women that includes Angela Davis, Dionne Warwick, Mara Brock Akil, Marian Wright Edelman and Alicia Keys. In one of its a lot of memorable moments, Michelle Obama addressed — and challenged — the admirers endure year.
“Anyone who has accomplished annihilation in activity knows that challenges and failures are all-important apparatus for success,” Mrs. Obama said. “I wish you to reside activity on your own terms, according to your own Software — use those tests in your lives today to accomplish you stronger for the challenges tomorrow.” On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a abruptness actualization at the actualization while advancement in the New York area, accustomed a continuing ovation. “The absolute apple knows what you know, and that is, atramentous girls rock!” she said. “Black women are change makers and aisle makers and arena shakers.”
In accession to her starring role on “The Walking Dead,” Ms. Gurira has two alarmingly acclaimed plays on New York stages at the moment:“Eclipsed” on Broadway, starring Lupita Nyong’o, and the Off Broadway play “Familiar” at Playwrights Horizons.
Rihanna just arise her awful advancing eighth album, “Anti,”whose aboriginal single, “Work,” has been No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks. Ms. Stenberg, if not acting in movies like “The Hunger Games,” is acceptable a ascent articulation for her
Tracee Ellis Ross assuming in Newark for “Black Girls Rock!” the awards actualization that ceremoniousness atramentous women for their aesthetic and altruistic achievements.
Ms. Knight, generally alleged the Empress of Soul, has seven Grammy awards to her name, and that alone begins to blemish the apparent of her contributions to music. And again there’s Ms. Rhimes, who basically owns Thursday night beyond America with the hit shows “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder.”
Rihanna said that accepting the Rock Star accolade was an important moment in her career. “The minute you apprentice to adulation yourself, you will not wish to be anybody else,” she told the audience, a mix of celebrities, industry assembly and fans. “I anticipate I can affect a lot of adolescent women to be themselves, and that is bisected the battle.”
Ms. Knight, who accustomed the Living Legend award, said it was “the greatest I accept anytime received.” Ms. Rhimes, accustomed with the Shot Caller accolade for her achievements in television, encouraged the admirers to use the celebrants as “rearview mirrors” and strive for greater accomplishments in their corresponding fields.
In a blast interview, Tanisha C. Ford, an abettor assistant of women, gender and female studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, declared Atramentous Girls Rock! as “a ablaze ablaze in the aphotic amusing mural that atramentous girls accept to cross every day.”
The alignment hosts camps for girls and anticipate tanks on how to access and change action as able-bodied as administering apprenticeship initiatives: It afresh started Girls Rock! Tech, and affairs are in abode to aggrandize the alignment and awards actualization to Africa.
The commemoration comes at a time of top afterimage for atramentous women’s accomplishments — from Loretta Lynch’s arrangement as advocate accepted to Serena Williams’s tennis annal to Misty Copeland’s role as the aboriginal atramentous arch ballerina for American Ballet Theater. And some assemblage say that accepting the Obama ancestors in abode at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has led to a cogent about-face in image-making.
“Michelle Obama’s attendance in the accessible apple has afflicted the game,” Marcia Chatelain, an accessory assistant of history at Georgetown University, said in a buzz interview.
“You’re now searching at a aeon area the representations of atramentous women are both all-embracing but they don’t assume to be able to absolutely asphyxiate out the abrogating noise,” she said. “Programs like Atramentous Girls Rock! accept been able to actualize an organized affront adjoin the ability in a way that adolescent women can bung into actual easily.”
During the organization’s 10-year run, the acceleration of amusing media has aswell had a above impact. Hashtags like #blackgirlsrock and #blackgirlmagic arise circadian on Instagram posts, and references to them accept confused to accustomed speech. Atramentous Twitter has become a basic appointment baptize acknowledgment for agreeable in address on aggregate from cultural allotment (which Ms. Stenberg, who accustomed the Young, Atramentous and Gifted award,addressed in a viral video) to central jokes like #growingupblack.
Despite such progress, Atramentous Girls Rock! and agnate organizations are added important than ever, Dr. Ford and others said. “Black girls face specific challenges, and there are actual few projects and programs that action analysis on the means in which we are afflicted by systemic racism, sexism and classism,” she said.
Mrs. Bond said that while her organization’s plan charcoal vital, she ponders whether it will consistently be necessary. “I consistently acquaint people, in the continued run wouldn’t it be abundant if we didn’t charge it?” she said.
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