My Publicist Note Book

Every since Jesse Williams' ineffable acceptance speech at last Tuesday's BET awards, the media has been on fire.  Recently,  the Color Purple  creator  picked up her pen  to express her gratitude to Jesse Williams for giving  the most talked about speech  of the year. In case you missed it, watch Williams’ full speech below… As different mediums and news sources worked to pick his words apart, his message did all but grow stronger.  His words ignited a crucial spark in the American community, and  t he 72-year-old storyteller  Alice Walker [ one of the greatest writers of the 20 th  century]     was so moved by Williams, she penned a poem   and   translated his immense impression in her latest poem: 'Here it is '. With her cherished eloquence and surely omniscient point of view, Williams' invigorating sense of action, is turned into a source of cultural pride and necessity. ...

It’s safe to say that the 34 year old  Grey's Anatomy  star Jesse Williams stole the BET Awards on Sunday night with a wildly inspirational, confrontational speech that is bound to become a cornerstone of the Black Lives Matter movement. He began by thanking BET and all involved in the video that preceded his appearance, his wife and his parents “for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, they made sure I learned what the schools are afraid to teach us. Actor and activist Jesse Williams was awarded with the BET Humanitarian Award on June 26, 2016. Although known for his work on Grey’s Anatomy and other films, Williams is also a prominent member and leader of groups such as Black Lives Matter. In October 2014, he joined protests in Ferguson to protest the shooting of Michael Brown. He was also an actor and executive producer of the 2016 documentary Stay Woke. He has written extensively on Black Lives Matter and met with President Obama earlier thi...

Eugene Allen, the man whose life and career were the inspiration for Lee Daniels’ The Butler. He served 8 different presidents as a butler in the White House. On August 16, you will be able to see him depicted as Cecil Gaines.  ‪#‎ LeeDanielsTheButler‬ ! The film follows the life of Cecil Gaines, an African-American domestic worker at the White House (played by  Forest Whitaker ) who worked for ten different U.S. presidents from the mid-1950s onward, with Robin Williams playing  Dwight Eisenhower , James Marsden playing  John F. Kennedy , Liev Schreiber playing Lyndon Johnson, and John Cusack playing Richard Nixon, among others.  The suggestion is that President Obama was invited to play himself in a brief scene near the end. President Barack Obama does NOT make his big-screen acting debut in the upcoming White House drama "Lee Daniels' The Butler." "We wanted him to do it," Daniels said, and it was in the script for him to make an ap...