Progress! Newest Member of Hollywood Foreign Press Still White but Has a Black Spouse

“We made a promise, and we intended to keep that promise.” – The HFPA

By: The Lunar Times Editorial Staff

During last night’s Golden Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association addressed a controversy that has nearly overshadowed their biggest night of the year: their lack of diversity within the HFPA. While there is not a public list of all its members, it has been widely reported that their organization does not include any Black members, but as they made it quite clear last night, they are devoted to changing that. Just this morning, an HFPA spokesperson announced their newest member, Stefan Wagner, a German-American writer, who also just so happens to be married to a Black woman. Ashley Harris, Wagner’s wife and prominent film critic, expressed her congratulations, “Are you serious?”

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