ICM Partners on Monday joined other music and Hollywood companies in pledging to observe the nationwide “Black Out Tuesday” initiative in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Tomorrow’s event will be used as “a day to disconnect from work and reconnect with our community” via “an urgent step of action to provoke accountability and change.”
The company joins fellow agencies CAA, Wme, Apa and Pantheon in the move, which ICM announced after a speech this morning at the weekly all-agency meeting from partner Robert Gibbs, who spoke in a deeply personal way about racism and its effects on him, his children and extended family. He then introduced J. Cole’s performance of “Be Free” from the Late Show With David Letterman in 2014 after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (See it below.)
After Gibbs, ICM Partners board member/department head Lorrie Bartlett, who last...
The company joins fellow agencies CAA, Wme, Apa and Pantheon in the move, which ICM announced after a speech this morning at the weekly all-agency meeting from partner Robert Gibbs, who spoke in a deeply personal way about racism and its effects on him, his children and extended family. He then introduced J. Cole’s performance of “Be Free” from the Late Show With David Letterman in 2014 after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (See it below.)
After Gibbs, ICM Partners board member/department head Lorrie Bartlett, who last...
- 6/1/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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