Regina King, Schiaparelli Join Christies to Support Obama Foundation Girls Opportunity Alliance

In early September, Regina King became the first Black woman director in the 87-year history of the Venice Film Festival to have her film ‘One Night in Miami ‘ screened as part of the programming. Scheduled for release on Christmas Day 2020, King’s directorial debut follows Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown through the night Feb. 25, 1964, after Clay defeated Sonny Liston to claim the world heavyweight boxing championship title. Note also, that ‘One Night in Miami’ comes to Amazon PRIME on January 15, 2021.

In nominating Regina King as one of Glamour Magazine’s ‘Women of the Year’, the magazine describes ‘One Night in Miami’ as “a night of celebration, conflict, fellowship, and moral and political epiphany.”

Regina King’s Schiaparelli Emmys 2020 Outfits at Auction

A few weeks later, Regina King accepted yet another Emmy for playing Sister Night, a.k.a. Angela Abar, in HBO’s ‘Watchmen’. The evening was 110% political activist for King, who wore a Schiaparelli double-breasted wool suit with embellished ‘bijoux’ buttons and matching trousers, in the iconic Schiaparelli Shocking pink. King added her own T-shirt bearing Breonna Taylor’s screen-printed image from the a Meena Harris–helmed brand Phenomenal Woman.

The Couture House Schiaparelli also dressed Regina King in an electric-blue asymmetrical embroidered silk falle gown with 250 encrusted multicolored jewels on the virtual red carpet. 

Speaking from home to accept her Emmy, King urged viewers to create a voting plan. "We've got to vote," declared King toward the end of her at-home speech. "I would be remiss not to mention that. Have a voting plan, go to ballotpedia.com. Vote up the ballot. Please go to ballotpedia.com and find out who are voting in your municipal elections. It is very important. Be a good human."

"Rest in power RBG," King concluded her speech, honoring the recently deceased RBG.

Now Regina King has joined forces with Schiaparelli and the auction house Christie’s to auction off her virtual red carpet outfits in support of Michelle Obama’s The Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance.

The online sale, ‘Schiaparelli: Regina King Emmy Outfits, Proceeds Intended to Support the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance’, is open for bidding thru October 30 and on public display at Christie’s Los Angeles through its Beverly Hills gallery-front windows as well as by private appointment. All of the proceeds will be donated to the Girls Opportunity Alliance. Read more details in the Christie’s press release.

‘One Night in Miami’

Returning to the upcoming movie ‘One Night in Miami’, I can’t wait to see the film. The narrative is based on a true story. It’s believed that Ali did spend the evening of February 25, 1964 — the night he won his first world title, beating Sonny Liston — with his real-life, Black icons buddies.

But Regina King’s interpretation, based on the Kemp Power’s stage play, has fictionalized the account of exactly what transpired that night.

Enjoy the trailer, and a follow-up, in-depth discussion with the movie’s principal actors: Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown; Eli Goree as Muhammad Ali; Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X; and Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke.

Delivering the film NOW was critical, and Regina King addressed that stress point of modern events intersecting with human history.

King said: “To complete and release a film within the same year is a difficult task. We welcomed the challenge because we knew now was the time for this film to be released. Amazon fully supported our intention and I could not be more excited this prescient story will be seen across the globe.”

To ground us in reality, the night then Cassius Clay (before his name change) beat Sonny Liston, he was unable to stay at a luxury hotel near the Miami Beach Convention Center due to Jim Crow-era segregation laws.

Clay spent the night at the Hampton House Motel in one of Miami’s historically black neighborhoods. It’s here that he celebrates with three of his closest friends: activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and football star Jim Brown in an artist-imagined, raw discussion about their shared struggles, racism in America and Black power.