From Kerry Washington winning her first Emmy (it's about time!) to the Carol Baskin DWTS ad - it's been an eventful week No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up for the WrapWomen newsletter and join our community of empowered women at: My Isolation Diary by Emily Vogel Dear Diary, I can't believe it's been two weeks since my last entry - the separation anxiety IS REAL and I have A LOT to catch you up on. Between "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" getting canceled, the family of Carol Baskin's ex-husband (aka the one who - ahem - disappeared) airing an ad during her "Dancing with the Stars" debut and Kerry Washington winning her first Emmy (FINALLY!) - it's been an eventful 14 days. Since we last spoke, I've also been busy with my team working on TheGrill 2020 (Sept. 22-24), Hollywood's leading event on the convergence of entertainment and technology. Join us and our powerhouse line-up of speakers including "Broad City" and "Russian Doll" executive producer Lilly Burns, WarnerMedia SVP of enterprise inclusion Mykhanh Shelton, "Indian Matchmaking" creator Smriti Mundhra, "Euphoria" star Nika King, Award-Winning Producer Effie Brown, "Tiffany Haddish: Black Mitzvah" executive producer Page Hurwitz, activist and producer JLove Calerdón, "The Irishman" producer Jane Rosenthal, Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson, New York Times op-ed columnist Kara Swisher and MORE! Register by Sunday, Sept. 20 and receive 50% OFF with code "WrapWomen" at thegrill.thewrap.com. Alicia Keys and NFL Partner to Launch $1 Billion Fund to Support Black-Owned Businesses(Credit: Getty) R&B icon Alicia Keys has been busy in the studio. Ahead of her album release later this month, she just released her new single, “Love Looks Better,” which she recently performed at an NFL event to kick off the 2020 season. But off the field, Keys and the NFL are partnering on something bigger than a moment: With the organization’s support, Keys launched a $1 billion fund to help support Black-owned businesses—the community among the hardest hit by the ongoing pandemic. "We are already seeing the blatant injustices that are going on around us," Keys says. "As an artist, I’m always thinking about how I can use my platform to further racial equity. This fund is one of the answers and our goal is to empower Black America through investing in Black businesses, Black investors, institutions, entrepreneurs, schools and banks in a way to create sustainable solutions." Former WNBA Star Maya Moore Married Jonathan Irons, the Man She Helped Free From a Wrongful Conviction (Credit: Instagram @mooremaya) You could say that Maya Moore, 31, and Jonathan Irons, 40, found love in a hopeless place. The WNBA star, who left professional basketball two seasons ago to focus on criminal justice reform, announced her marriage to Irons, the wrongfully-convicted man who she helped free from prison earlier this year. He was released in July after serving 20 years for a crime he didn't commit. The couple told "Good Morning America" that they became friends back when Moore was 18, meeting through her family at the University of Connecticut. "I got to know him and over the last 13 years we have just developed a friendship and [then] entered this huge battle to get him home and over time it was pretty clear what the Lord was doing in our hearts," she recalled. "Now we’re sitting here today, starting a whole new chapter together." 10 of Jane Fonda’s Best Quotes on Love, Life & Activism(Credit: Vogue UK) Jane Fonda has spent much of her life actively fighting for the rights of others. On top of a successful acting career that has spanned decades, Fonda has used her platform and privilege to be a voice for people without one. In recent days, video footage from 1979 that shows a young Fonda throwing her support behind the LGBTQIA+ community has been circulating on social media. Fonda was being interviewed amidst the White Night riots in San Francisco that followed the death of her friend, the politician Harvey Milk. “Do you feel that the gays in San Francisco, who are very powerful and very strong, need support? Are they still being discriminated against?” a reporter asks Fonda in the clip. “Oh, absolutely,” Fonda replies. “Culturally, psychologically, economically, politically – gays and lesbians are discriminated against. They are a very powerful movement, especially in San Francisco, they don’t need me, but they like me, they like our organisation, the Campaign for Economic Democracy, because they know that working together we can be stronger than either entity is by itself.” Black Women ‘Missing’ in a Third of 2019’s Top Grossing Films(Credit: Universal Pictures) Black women and girls were completely absent from at least one third of last year’s 100 top-grossing movies, while Asian women were missing from 55 and Latina women did not appear in 71, according to data from USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s annual report released Thursday. The “invisibility analysis” was one of many insights as part of the latest study of 2019’s top-grossing films as led by Professor Stacy L. Smith. Dr. Smith demonstrates that while Hollywood has shown improvement in giving representation to women, people of color and LGBT individuals as the lead characters in films, the industry has hardly budged when it comes to giving under-represented groups speaking roles on screen overall, with these groups often erased from movies altogether. Katherine Langford: The Women Leading Time’s Up Are Holding the Door Open(Credit: JB Lacroix) When "13 Reasons Why" and "Love, Simon" actress Katherine Langford was invited to a Time’s Up meeting prior to the Golden Globes, she was understandably affected. "I think we've been able to see a lot more change since women started speaking out [against sexual harassment],” she tells us. “For me, being not only a young woman—but a young woman in Hollywood—is very empowering, particularly when it's mixed with the social resources we have.” That includes uniting with powerful women like Reese Witherspoon and Brie Larson. “Having an opportunity to be part of the Time's Up movement at the Golden Globes and after, there's been a lot more discussion that allows us to really talk to one another and unite in such a global formation,” Langford says. “Although I’m still really young and have a lot to learn, I hope I can continue to use my platform to bring light to issues that need to be talked about and to empower other people around me.” Who Run the World?! Girls. WrapWomen is a power base of influential women of entertainment, media, technology and brands committed to changing the face of their industries. 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