TLC HONORS MULTITALENTED ACTOR TAYE DIGGS, ACTRESS, ACTIVIST AND AUTHOR SKAI JACKSON, TLC STAR WHITNEY THORE AND THREE NATIONAL CONTEST WINNERS DURING THIRD ANNUAL “GIVE A LITTLE” AWARDS

TLC HONORS MULTITALENTED ACTOR TAYE DIGGS, ACTRESS, ACTIVIST AND AUTHOR SKAI JACKSON, TLC STAR WHITNEY THORE AND THREE NATIONAL CONTEST WINNERS DURING THIRD ANNUAL “GIVE A LITTLE” AWARDS

Top Left: Actor and GAL Honoree Taye Diggs, GAL Host and TLC Star Lisa Joyner, TLC Star and GAL Honoree Whitney Thore, Actress/Activist/Author and GAL Honoree Skai Jackson and President and General Manager of TLC, Howard Lee 
Top Right: GAL contest winners Devin Moore and Angela Varney, President and General Manager of TLC, Howard Lee and GAL contest winners Barbara Buckley and Christina Varney
Bottom: Actor and GAL Honoree Taye Diggs, GAL Host and TLC Star Lisa Joyner, TLC Star and GAL Honoree Whitney Thore, President and General Manager of TLC, Howard Lee, Actress/Activist/Author and GAL Honoree Skai Jackson and GAL contest winners Devin Moore, Angela Varney, Barbara Buckley and Christina Varney

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TLC, in partnership with Love Is Louder, a project of The Jed Foundation, presented its third annual GIVE A LITTLE Awards last night. The ceremony, which honors individuals who are working to eradicate bullying for future generations, was hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist and TLC personality Lisa Joyner (“Long Lost Family,” “Taken at Birth”) at Union Park Events in New York City. Among this year’s honorees were multitalented actor Taye Diggs, who is currently starring in The CW’s “All American,” actress, activist and author Skai Jackson, who has a forthcoming book entitled Reach for the Skai, Whitney Thore, star of TLC’s “My Big Fat Fabulous Life,” and three national contest winners who were nominated for making a significant social impact in their communities: Danica Roem (first out transgender candidate to be elected to the Virginia House of Delegates), Barbara Buckley and Angela and Christina Varney (Annie’s Kindness Blankets), and Devin Moore (founder of #RaceToSpeakUp). Other notable guests in attendance included TLC President and General Manager, Howard Lee and Love Is Louder Director Courtney Knowles.

As part of TLC’s ongoing initiative to raise awareness and provide education about bullying, the network is partnering with organizations that help amplify the universal messages of love, kindness and acceptance. Timed to National Bullying Prevention Month of October, TLC is teaming up with Georgetown Cupcake to create an exclusive “Give a Little” cupcake; to encourage customers to spread kindness, each customer who buys the cupcake will receive a complimentary one to share. For each GAL cupcake sold, Georgetown Cupcake will donate $1 to Love is Louder. TLC is also partnering with Threadless, an online community of artists. Threadless recently held a contest to enlist its artists to create a bullying prevention-inspired t-shirt, and the winning design was unveiled during the awards ceremony.

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