{"id":621688,"date":"2023-03-25T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/gina-prince-bythewood-to-be-honored-at-black-business-association-salute-to-black-women-event\/"},"modified":"2023-03-25T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T05:46:00","slug":"gina-prince-bythewood-to-be-honored-at-black-business-association-salute-to-black-women-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/25\/gina-prince-bythewood-to-be-honored-at-black-business-association-salute-to-black-women-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Gina Prince-Bythewood to Be Honored at Black Business Association Salute to Black Women Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/gina-prince-bythewood\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gina-prince-bythewood\" data-tag=\"gina-prince-bythewood\">Gina Prince-Bythewood<\/a> will receive the Pinnacle of Excellence Award at the Black Business Association\u2019s 2023 Salute to Black Women business conference. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/gina-prince-bythewood-oscars-shutout-the-woman-king-1235319026\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prince-Bythewood<\/a> will be recognized not only for her award-winning directing, writing and producing but also for her decades-long career and philanthropic efforts, one of which includes funding a scholarship for Black students in UCLA\u2019s film program. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/viola-davis-gina-prince-bythewood-the-woman-king-1235210487\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-woman-king\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-woman-king\" data-tag=\"the-woman-king\">The Woman King<\/a><\/em> filmmaker<\/a> is one of eight honorees set to receive an award at the organization\u2019s 20th annual event celebrating Black women on March 25 in recognition of National Women\u2019s History Month. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cCelebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLos Angeles mayor Karen Bass, California congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, retired NBC4 reporter Beverly White, retired radio personality Pat Prescott, California Black Media executive director Regina Brown Wilson and authors Cynthia E. Exum and Devyn Bakewell will be honored alongside Prince-Bythewood.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe daytime celebration will include a red carpet, the awards luncheon program, a dessert reception, a vendor faire and panel discussions, like \u201cRole Models for Success\u201d and \u201cSeason of Greatness.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cIt will serve to uplift and fortify us at a time when the world seems to need saving, and we know that Black women will save the world,\u201d Black Business Association president and CEO Sarah R. Harris said in a statement. \u201cAs we celebrate in the spirit of this year\u2019s theme, we are honored to spotlight eight amazing women who consistently tell our stories in the ways they know best. With the same enthusiasm, we are delighted to explore how we can excel and move into our \u2018Season of Greatness.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/bbala.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Black Business Association<\/a> is the oldest active ethnic business support organization in the state of California, according to its website. Since 1970, it has been instrumental in developing and growing thousands of Black-owned businesses locally and nationally, with the goal of creating a firm economic base for Black and urban communities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\">\n<p>\t\tTHR Newsletters<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p>Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.hollywoodreporter.com\/signup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t<span><br \/>\n\t\tSubscribe\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span>Sign Up<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/gina-prince-bythewood-honoree-black-business-association-2023-event-1235360720\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Christy Pina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gina Prince-Bythewood will receive the Pinnacle of Excellence Award at the Black Business Association\u2019s 2023 Salute to Black Women business conference. Prince-Bythewood will be recognized not only for her award-winning directing, writing and producing but also for her decades-long career and philanthropic efforts, one of which includes funding a scholarship for Black students in UCLA\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":621689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2105,534,120716],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-621688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-black","8":"category-financial","9":"category-prince-bythewood"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}