GAL APPROVED! Digitally Attend the NABJ’s 2020 Virtual Awards & Creatives Holiday Beauty Bash!

By The DivaGals | December 4, 2020 | Gal Approved

WATCH. Grammy Award-winning singer and actress Jennifer Holliday will join the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) as the featured performer for its 2020 Virtual Awards, which streams Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Celebrity DJ Andre Mack will also join NABJ as the host of the awards show live afterparty. Free tickets are available. NABJ’s first-ever virtual awards will recognize the winners of its 2020 “Salute to Excellence Awards” and pay tribute to 2020 Special Honors recipients and Hall of Fame inductees. The hosts for the evening will be Emmy Award-winning actress Lynn Whitfield; Craig Melvin, anchor of NBC News’ TODAY; NAACP Image Award-winning actress Tichina Arnold; Michelle Miller, co-host of CBS This Morning: Saturday and Kenneth Moton, co-anchor of ABC World News Now and America This Morning. The awards ceremony, presented by FedEx, will kick off at 8 p.m. EST. It will be preceded by a pre-event reception at 7:30 p.m. EST. The post-event afterparty will be held from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST. Tickets provide access to all three activities.

SUPPORT. Beginning Dec. 7, the Creatives Holiday Beauty Bash fundraiser featuring 20 top hair and makeup artists come together for a 10-day virtual event to raise funds to advance educational and beauty-based programs and provide financial assistance to those affected by COVID-19. Artists include Sir John, Danessa Myricks, Mila Thomas, Bobbi Brown, Renèe Loiz and more. Brand Sponsors include Lancôme, Jones Road, Danessa Myricks Beauty, Unwrapped Life, MYKITCO, Westman Atelier, Glam Seamless, The Makeup Show, and R+Co. Classes are a $20 donation each; $100 for an All Access Hair Pass; $300 for an All Access Makeup Pass and or $400 for both. Be one of the first 25 to purchase an All Access Hair Pass and receive a FREE Unwrapped Life Travel Set of Shampoo & Conditioner Bars and the first 25 to buy an All-Access Makeup Pass receive 3 FREE Lancôme Juicy Tubes. The first 25 to buy an All-Access for BOTH Hair and Makeup will receive a Glam Seamless Mermaid Waves Crimper Styling Iron + the Unwrapped Life Travel Set of Shampoo & Conditioner Bars + 3 FREE Lancôme Juicy Tubes, a total value of $241! Can’t watch live? All classes will also be available On Demand.