{"id":2404950,"date":"2026-05-06T18:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2404950"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:36:48","slug":"usher-teams-with-boys-girls-clubs-for-initiative-to-advance-careers-in-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/usher-teams-with-boys-girls-clubs-for-initiative-to-advance-careers-in-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Usher teams with Boys &#038; Girls Clubs for initiative to advance careers in entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Usher at the 98th Oscars (Disney\/Maya Dehlin)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"searchHighlight\">Usher\u00a0continues to invest in the next generation of leaders through his New Look nonprofit organization, which has partnered\u00a0with\u00a0Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit to\u00a0launch a new initiative for\u00a0teens and young adults pursuing careers in the entertainment trades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"searchHighlight\">Entertainment Industry Club: Live Touring Edition<\/span><em><span class=\"searchHighlight\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"searchHighlight\">will choose 10 participants\u00a0from Detroit and Atlanta for an 11-week internship tied to Usher&#8217;s R&amp;B Tour with Chris Brown. Interns will get\u00a0hands-on experience in tour production, operations, multimedia, wardrobe and more.\u00a0They will also gain access to\u00a0Spark Sessions: Making of the Tour, a series hosted at Boys &amp; Girls Clubs across the country,\u00a0offering a closer look at the business and production of touring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span class=\"searchHighlight\">In addition, interns will\u00a0partner with local clubs at each stop of the R&amp;B Tour to lead community activations, including career workshops, training sessions and peer-to-peer learning experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At <span class=\"searchHighlight\">Usher<\/span>\u2019s New Look, we\u2019ve always believed talent is everywhere, but access is not,\u201d Usher said in a statement. \u201cThis program is opening doors and putting young professionals in a position to learn, grow, and work inside the entertainment trades. It\u2019s about giving them a real opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Applications for the\u00a0Entertainment Industry Club: Live Touring Edition are open at\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ushersnewlook.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:UshersNewLook.org;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UshersNewLook.org<\/a>. You must be 18 or older to apply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usher at the 98th Oscars (Disney\/Maya Dehlin) Usher\u00a0continues to invest in the next generation of leaders through his New Look nonprofit organization, which has partnered\u00a0with\u00a0Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit to\u00a0launch a new initiative for\u00a0teens and young adults pursuing careers in the entertainment trades. Entertainment Industry Club: Live Touring Edition\u00a0will choose 10 participants\u00a0from Detroit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2404951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[320169,21741],"class_list":["post-2404950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chris-brown","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Usher-teams-with-Boys-Girls-Clubs-for-initiative-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404952,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404950\/revisions\/2404952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}