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During the Critics Choice Association’s Latino Celebration, the star called on artists to take action amid escalating political tensions<\/p>\n
\n\tWhen accepting the Trailblazer Award from the Critics Choice Association\u2019s 5th annual Celebration of Latino Cinema & Television, America Ferrera took the opportunity to call on artists across Hollywood to use the power of storytelling to empower communities in \u201ca day and age where discourse and conversation are failing to create connection and empathy and understanding.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tAccording to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, the Barbie<\/em> star recalled a conversation with a scholar on the history of authoritarianism who warned that the United States is \u201cbarreling towards a crisis point in our country and therefore in our world.\u201d Ferrera pressed on: \u201cAnd we [in Hollywood] are not a cute little side note to civil society \u2014 we are civil society. Artists and the stories we tell have a role to play in this moment.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tThe ceremony took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, a city where the Trump administration\u2019s \u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u00a0(ICE) raids have caused widespread fear among immigrant communities. Many have become too afraid to go about their daily lives and leave their homes \u2014 regardless of their legal status, as both immigrants with legal status and US citizens have been detained and arrested over the past year.<\/p>\n \n\tFerrera, who was presented her award by Jamie Lee Curtis, continued, \u201cWe have an obligation to point not only to what we are against, but to create and to demonstrate the world that we are for and the world that we want to live in; and to not depict one another as charity cases, as people who need us to have dignity. We are born with our dignity, and no one will take that away from us.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tShe closed out the event by urging those listening to take action. \u201cIt is time for us to find our courage, find our heroism, be as brave as the characters we write and as brave as the characters we play and stand up and use our voices and use our art \u2014 make art that inspires and calls forth the world we want to live in,\u201d Ferrera said.<\/p>\n \n\tPer THR<\/em>, other figures in the industry honored that night included Andy Garcia, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Ramos, Camila Perez, Dolores Huerta, Frida Perez, Gabriel Luna, Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho, Dolores Fonzi and\u00a0Tonatiuh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the Critics Choice Association’s Latino Celebration, the star called on artists to take action amid escalating political tensions When accepting the Trailblazer Award from the Critics Choice Association\u2019s 5th annual Celebration of Latino Cinema & Television, America Ferrera took the opportunity to call on artists across Hollywood to use the power of storytelling to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[8090,14116,1126],"class_list":{"0":"post-30446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brave","9":"tag-characters","10":"tag-write"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n