{"id":1993,"date":"2025-07-09T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/tina-knowles-to-be-honored-by-elizabeth-taylor-aids-foundation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:49:05","slug":"tina-knowles-to-be-honored-by-elizabeth-taylor-aids-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/tina-knowles-to-be-honored-by-elizabeth-taylor-aids-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Knowles to Be Honored by Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tThe Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation<\/a> is putting the program together for its upcoming gala \u2014 the Elizabeth Taylor Night of Compassion to be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sept. 18 \u2014 by drafting Tina Knowles<\/a> to receive a marquee honor. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe business mogul, designer, best-selling author and activist has been selected to receive the Elizabeth Taylor Commitment to End AIDS Award\u00a0for her ongoing support for people living with HIV and for her allyship with the LGBTQ+ community. The gala event, fronted by standout TV host Melvin Robert<\/a> (who departed his post at Extra<\/em> and Good Day L.A.<\/em> to replace the late Sam Rubin<\/a> at KTLA as entertainment anchor), will feature Cookie Johnson as ETAF\u2019s 2025 champion. Supported by presenting sponsor Gilead Sciences, the Elizabeth Taylor Night of Compassion\u00a0will include a reception, culinary experience, live performance and views of select items from the Elizabeth Taylor archive.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is a critical time for support to people living with HIV, and we could not be more excited to have Mrs. Cookie Johnson as our 2025 ETAF Champion. Having known and joined Elizabeth Taylor in her work, Mrs. Johnson is deeply committed to the prevention and treatment of people at risk for and living with HIV. In addition, we are thrilled to honor Ms. Tina Knowles with the Commitment to End AIDS Award for her years of dedication and advocacy on behalf of people living with HIV.\u00a0 Both of these outstanding, selfless and iconic women join in our founder\u2019s vision of an AIDS-free world,\u201d praised Catherine Brown, executive director of the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnowles launched her career as a makeup artist, hairstylist and owner of successful hair salon in Houston, where she made a name for herself styling what would become a blockbuster group, Destiny\u2019s Child, featuring daughter Beyonc\u00e9. She segued to helping craft Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s world tours, TV performances, movie roles and red-carpet appearances. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe co-founded the Knowles-Rowland Center for Youth in Houston and spearheaded the anti-hunger initiative, Miss A Meal. Knowles is credited with supporting communities through hurricane relief and COVID-19 testing. Knowles is the driving force behind the WACO Theater Center in Los Angeles, a nonprofit dedicated to uplifting and empowering artists across diverse communities.<\/p>\n

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The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation is putting the program together for its upcoming gala \u2014 the Elizabeth Taylor Night of Compassion to be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sept. 18 \u2014 by drafting Tina Knowles to receive a marquee honor. The business mogul, designer, best-selling author and activist has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2229,2228,2230,2227,2226,1944,2225],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fashion","tag-aids","tag-elizabeth","tag-foundation","tag-honored","tag-knowles","tag-taylor","tag-tina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}