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Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman Breast Cancer Initatives
Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman Breast Cancer Initatives Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario and filmmaker/activist Alice Aedy captured 12 women of diverse ages and backgrounds through a film and photo series called “In A Letter to My Loved Ones” as part of Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman campaign to raise awareness of…
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Receives Another $600K From AEPF For Digital Education Platform
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Receives Another $600K From AEPF For Digital Education Platform Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — photo provided.American Electric Power Foundation (AEPF) has given the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a second $600,000 grant for its free digital learning platform, Rock Hall EDU. Rock Hall EDU is an online portal and resource guide…
Royal Ontario Museum Creates Curatorship of Climate Change, Scours Globe To Fill Curator Job
Royal Ontario Museum Creates Curatorship of Climate Change, Scours Globe To Fill Curator Job The Royal Ontario Museum natural history exhibits — photo credit: Paul Orenstein. In a first of its kind for a major Canadian museum, Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has established the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curatorship of Climate Change, which aims to…
Emmy Award Round Up of Comments About BLM, Social Justice, Diversity, Mental Health
Emmy Award Round Up of Comments About BLM, Social Justice, Diversity, Mental Health Jimmy Kimmel, Emmy Awards, Sept. 20, 2020 — screenshot. During the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards last night, hosted at the Staples Center in Los Angeles by Jimmy Kimmel with just a few socially distanced guests popping in and out and a giant digital backdrop displaying 130…
The City of Toronto and Slaight Family Foundation Make $2 Million Pact to Support Black Music Industry Professionals
The City of Toronto and Slaight Family Foundation Make $2 Million Pact to Support Black Music Industry Professionals The announcement was made Aug. 10 at the Phoenix Concert Theatre — (L to R); Slaight Music's Derrick Ross; Universal Music Canada's Kardinal Offishall, Phoenix's Lisa Zbitnew; Deputy Mayor Michael Thompson, Sony Music's Craig Mannix,Mayor…
Metallica Frontman James Hetfield Holds Charity Sweepstakes For Classic Car Book Box Set
Metallica Frontman James Hetfield Holds Charity Sweepstakes For Classic Car Book Box Set Metallica frontman and car collector/restorer James Hetfield is holding a sweepstakes to win a limited edition box set of his new book on his classic car collection, with 100 percent of the proceeds from each entry going to the metal band’s All Within My Hands…
Rapper G-Eazy Donating Merchandise Profits And Masks
Rapper G-Eazy Donating Merchandise Profits And Masks G-Eazy — photo credit: Lauren Dunn.Rapper G-Eazy showed his support of black rights and desire to end police violence by donating all of the profits from the June merchandise sales on his website to My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, Campaign Zero and Color of Change. Former United States president Barack…
INTERVIEW: Frank Turner Helps Indie Music Venues with Regular Livestreamed Shows
INTERVIEW: Frank Turner Helps Indie Music Venues with Regular Livestreamed Shows Frank Turner — photo credit: sceenshot. When British singer, songwriter and musician Frank Turner isn’t touring tirelessly around the globe, he’s likely recording, writing more songs or another book, or preparing to do one of those things. So it was a major shock to the…
Toronto Blue Jays’ From Home Plate to Your Plate Food Drive
Toronto Blue Jays’ From Home Plate to Your Plate Food Drive The Toronto Blue Jays and its Jays Care Foundation have launched the From Home Plate to Your Plate virtual fundraising food drive to benefit Food Banks Canada. The charitable organization’s 2019 “HungerCount” report showed there were 1.08 million visits to 2,326 reporting food banks, resulting…
Post Malone's Nirvana Live Stream Raises $500K For UN Foundation’s Covid-19 Fund
Post Malone's Nirvana Live Stream Raises $500K For UN Foundation’s Covid-19 Fund Post Malone, April 24, 2020 — photo: screenshotPost Malone has earned lots of money for himself through his songs over the past five years, but the genre-bending artist raised more than (USD) $500,000 for the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund…
COVID-19 Concert Round Up: How Much They Raised, And Counting
COVID-19 Concert Round Up: How Much They Raised, And Counting Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello perform for iHeart Living Room Concert For America — screenshot. Amid the coronavirus crisis, major at-home fundraising concerts have taken place to raise funds for frontline workers, food security, and other related-issues arising from the the impact of the…
Major Global Record Labels Pledge Millions In Pandemic Fight
Major Global Record Labels Pledge Millions In Pandemic Fight photo credit: Kaikoro (iStock)The three multi-national major labels, Universal, Warner and Sony, have all taken significant steps to help their employees, as well as artists and songwriters, by dedicating funds to aid them during the covid-19 pandemic. How the monies are being allocated by…
Q&A: PACE Society Senior Staffer Talks Safety and Financial Aid For Sex Workers During Covid-19
Q&A: PACE Society Senior Staffer Talks Safety and Financial Aid For Sex Workers During Covid-19 Sex workers — photo credit: iStock, Toni Palermo One sector of the population that has been largely neglected in terms of financial aid during the covid-19 pandemic is sex workers, who rely on human contact to make a living. While some can operate online…
Slaight Family Foundation Donate $3M to Four Food-Focused Organizations
Slaight Family Foundation Donate $3M to Four Food-Focused Organizations Photo credit: iStock's mangostock.The Slaight Family Foundation, the philanthropic fund created by the Toronto-based broadcast media family, is donating $3 million to help bring food security to people in need during the COVID-19 crisis. The recipients are Breakfast Club of Canada,…
WATCH: PSA on Street Harassment, Part of L'Oréal Paris and Hollaback! Training Program
WATCH: PSA on Street Harassment, Part of L'Oréal Paris and Hollaback! Training Program Photo courtesy of L'Oréal Paris.L'Oréal Paris has created a public service announcement to help stop street harassment, by showing men’s inappropriate sexual behaviour in such public places as gyms, bars and on the street, and what a person can do to intervene. …