Will Smith & Essence Honors Jada Pinkett Smith

ESSENCE MAGAZINE CELEBRATES
BLACK WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD WITH LUNCHEON
HONORING RUBY DEE, JADA PINKETT SMITH,
SUZANNE DE PASSE & JURNEE SMOLLETT

ESSENCE magazine, the preeminent lifestyle magazine for African-American women, will celebrate some of Tinsel Town's best with the first annual ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon, taking place during Oscar Week on Thursday, February 21, in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The star-studded event will honor three of Hollywood's finest who have helped to change and inspire positive images of Black women in television and film—both in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes. The ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon commemorates ESSENCE magazine's annual Hollywood issue.
INTERVIEW & B-Roll: Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Ruby Dee, Suzanne de Passe, Jurnee Smollett, Kerry Washington, Macy Gray, Tracee Ellis Ross, Vivica Fox, Vanessa Williams, Raven Symone, Paula Patton, Quincy Jones, Lisa Raye McCoy Misic, Garcelle Beauvais Nillon, Jaci Reid, Regina King, Sally Richardson, Taraji Henson, Tichina Arnold, Elise Neal, Regina Hall, Rashida Jones, Regina Hall, Nicole Brown, Jennifer Lewis, Lorrie Bartlett and more.


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Produced by Jamaal Finkley
Camera Ron Hart
Personality Ms. Patricia Cage

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[enelijit]

@damuddydog If it was White people instead of Blacks who went through slavery and modern discrimination, i would've give thumbs up to your comment............think b4 writing something

[simsimmer88]

@enelijit First of all congratulations to Jada! But in response to you be careful to think before you write. The irish were actually the first slaves and were treated as bad if not worse than the black people.I'm mixed race. Half Irish,Half black. I know for a fact ancestors from both sides were slaves. They suffered not me. They deserve recognition not me. My parents and ancestors wanted unity not division, let it go. Stop grouping off. Black people are as rasist as white. Believe me I know.

[Francesca4002]

ahah Sorry is an OFF TOPIC but... when she stand with her hads at 04:27 reminds me of an Italian gesture that means literally:" I make you an ass so'" in angry way ;) ahah I don't know if there's a transposition in english.. However I like so much this family..I think that they are not empty but quite the opposite..and truly. Good..oh, and lucky!! :)

[ASSBANG6969]

Just a friendly reminder. We all will die some day. The Sun will die / explode ( SuperNova ) Death of a Sun....then what? Let me guess what will be said before that happens...Your white / I'm Black...Blah blah blah....From the beginning we are born, we begin DEATH....

[EgyptianRoyalty]

Whenever Will Smith talks 'seriously', he sounds like a human robot. Hard to explain..lol

[MSlaborka]

@lcelylce

 exactly!!!! :)))))

[lcelylce]

P.s. Blacks didn't go into slavery, a big number of certain people with darker skin went into slavery before. THEY ARE NOT YOU. Just like not all germans are nazis. I'm sick of words like "my people", whatever happened to individuality.

What i'm trying to say is : whatever you look like, wherever you came from- means nothing, it doesn't make you good or bad this or that. There are no rules

[lcelylce]

Reading comments the only thought i had was, when the fuck will the whole "race" thing die out, blacks and whites are not a different race, dwarves and elves are a different race. Humans are humans and human nature sux, you think blacks had it hard? Check out what men did to women for a thousand and more years. I did meet a caucasian hated blacks once though...I was like "do you run away from sun during the summer also?" Racism is stupid, it's the 21 century ffs, enough already.