EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood Confidential, the long-running event series created by author and TV producer Steve Jones , will honor Mara Brock Akil at its next edition with a career award, celebrating 25 years since the debut of her seminal TV series Girlfriends .

Akil will receive the Hollywood Confidential ICON Award. The event, titled Forever Our Girlfriend , will take place at The Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater and feature an intimate conversation with Akil, led by Jones.

“To be honored in this way, while celebrating 25 years of Girlfriends , is profoundly moving,” Mara Brock Akil said of the honor. “That series was more than a show; it was a love letter to friendship, womanhood, and the lives we lead together. The stories I’ve been blessed to tell since have all grown from th

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