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Tyler Perry Salutes Nicole Avant, Amber Ruffin Jokes About DEI Rollbacks and More From Inside the AAFCA Awards
Inside the 16th AAFCA Awards where Tyler Perry, Nicole Avant, Amber Ruffin, Danielle Deadwyler, RaMell Ross and more celebrated Black stories.
On stage, Avant dedicated the award to them, plus her godfather, the late Quincy Jones, as well as all the people “who have been beacons of light along my journey,” including Don Cornelius, Cicely Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Diahann Carroll and Sidney Poitier. If you consider that we are 15% of the population, but yet our influence just cuts into just about every area, every index of this country, Black folks have changed the game, have redefined, have rescripted, have transformed,” Robertson said, noting that the heads of both ABFF (Jeff and Nicole Friday) and the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (Stephanie and Floyd Rance) were on the guest list. Where Perry alluded to the fraught political climate, AAFCA awards host Amber Ruffin is no stranger to sharing her take, as an Emmy nominee for “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and her own eponymous talk show.
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