, the anchor, says there’s a silver lining in the current entertainment industry turmoil. “I know there’s a lot of uncertainty right now in the industry, and we’re all experiencing it. I just look at that meaning there are endless possibilities.
We have endless possibilities with the production company,” Roberts said during a keynote address at the Banff World Media Festival on Sunday. Besides her day job with the ABC morning show, Roberts is also president of her own production banner, Rockin’ Robin Productions. And she’s at Banff to drum up business for her production company, as well as receive the A&E Inclusion Award at the Rockie Awards gala.
Roberts said her production company aims to create content to encourage greater diversity and inclusivity that isn’t found elsewhere. “We have this motto that we want to create storytelling that creates a reaction that leads to action,” she explained. An example is responding to new educational standards in Florida and othe U.
S. states that have rewritten the history of American Blacks. “When things are taken out of the schools, some history is being rewritten, to be able to do pieces for The History Channel, to enlighten people about history” is a goal of Rockin’ Roberts Productions, she explained.
The anchor also talked about her father, Colonel Lawrence Roberts, and his legacy as an original Tuskegee Airman. “I didn’t realize how young they were. I didn’t realize my father was a teenager.
He was 19.
