Cheryl Boone Isaacs, First African American President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
In a press release dated August 1, 2013 the NAACP Hollywood Bureau congratulates Cheryl Boone Isaacs, on becoming President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The Academy, which produces the annual Oscar ceremony, has not had a female president since 1983, and has never had an African-American president in its 86-year history. “Cheryl […]