Black Culture at the Epicenter of Hollywood
Seismic activity emanating from Hollywood reverberates around the world, influencing social customs, policies, and practices. These media vibrations shake and shape perceptions and behaviors – impacting global consciousness to the core.
Despite its distortions of Black life, Hollywood has used, borrowed, appropriated, and exploited Black culture to permeate the surface of banality, offering consumers deeper resonance and stimulation of the human spirit. Black culture is liberating. It frees the spirit to imagine and soar beyond the limitations of convention, sustaining Hollywood’s relevance and commerce.
The NAACP probes Hollywood’s long-standing reliance on Black culture to craft and perpetuate popular narratives, while interrogating the inequitable dynamics of the exchange.
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Kyle Bowser, Senior Vice President, NAACP Hollywood Bureau
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Kyle BowserSenior VP, NAACP Hollywood Bureau
Kyle Bowser serves as the Senior Vice President of the Hollywood Bureau. In this capacity, Mr. Bowser is responsible for advancing NAACP’s Hollywood projects, relationships, and overseeing NAACP’s Image Awards production.
For nearly three decades, Kyle Bowser has worked as an entertainment industry executive. His experience spans film, television, music, theater, radio, and digital media.
This immersion within a vast sphere of media interests has provided Bowser with unique insight into the intersecting parameters of the arts, culture, business development, and emerging technologies.
Bowser’s career began in theater management and concert promotion. His involvement in television began with NBC Business Affairs in New York City. He later moved to Los Angeles to join Fox, Inc., where he developed television programming of multiple genres and creatively managed primetime fare aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company. Bowser next served as Director of Creative Affairs for HBO Independent Productions, where he developed new programs and creatively supervised content licensed to primetime broadcast carriers. Throughout Bowser’s storied career, his producing talents have been engaged by countless media companies, including NBC, Fox, HBO, Showtime, Starz, Comedy Central, Lifetime, Cooking Channel, PBS, iNDemand, Facebook, Warner Bros., Harper Collins, AEG, the NFL, and more.
A native of Philadelphia, PA, Kyle Bowser received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in Radio/Television Communications and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Widener University School of Law. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations and supports the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association and the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) – for whom he founded the annual Vision Awards and received its coveted Legacy Award.