Celebrating 35 Years of Raising Health Awareness
Step into history and heart as Emmy Award-winner Sheryl Lee Ralph and The DIVA Foundation proudly present the 35th Anniversary of DIVAS Simply Singing! Raising Health Awareness.
On Saturday, November 1, 2025, at the stunning Taglyan Cultural Complex in Los Angeles, this unforgettable gala and show taping will honor 35 years of song, sisterhood, and saving lives. Experience powerful performances, moving tributes, and a celebration of resilience that has inspired hope and healing for generations.
Join us as we lift our voices, change lives, and make history together.
About The DIVA Foundation
The DIVA Foundation is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded by humanitarian and Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph as a memorial and life-long pledge to the many friends she lost to AIDS while originating her iconic role in Dreamgirls on Broadway. Pairing strong family values with rising fame, Ralph used her spotlight to mobilize resources, fight stigma, fundraise, and deliver urgent messaging around the awareness and prevention of transmission of HIV/AIDS.
The DIVA Foundation is committed to achieving better health outcomes for all people through innovative Health Awareness programming using the transformative power of the arts and community building. The DIVA Foundation believes we can help others realize healthier and enriched lives if we “dare to care about humanity.”
For over four decades, Sheryl Lee Ralph has used her voice to uplift and educate audiences while helping to eradicate the stigma around HIV that persists to this day. Sheryl Lee Ralph is uniquely poised to broaden and advance her Foundation’s role in the fight for social justice and health equity.
Since its inception in 1990, The DIVA Foundation has raised over $5.5M from corporations and individuals to deliver community-based programs targeting the most at-risk for poor health outcomes, including people living with HIV/AIDS and those left even more vulnerable by comorbidities.
Mission
The DIVA Foundation is committed to empowering vulnerable communities to achieve better health outcomes through innovative programs that harness the transformative power of the arts.
Through our work, The DIVA Foundation inspires and educates individuals to take action, positively impact their lives, and pay it forward to their communities. We firmly believe in caring for humanity, engaging communities, breaking down barriers, and promoting understanding and empathy.
Our mission is to support and advocate for those traditionally underserved and underrepresented and to create a more just and fair world for all.
Living Proof 2025 World AIDS Special
From Emmy Award-winning actress and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph and The DIVA Foundation comes Living Proof—a powerful new World AIDS Day television special shining a light on the resilience, brilliance, and leadership of Black women living with HIV in the South.
At its heart are Freda Jones and Kennedi Lowman, courageous co-founders of LOTUS (Loving Ourselves Through Unity and Strength), a groundbreaking nonprofit rewriting the HIV narrative for women across the region. Through their journeys of survival, healing, and empowerment, Freda and Kennedi are building a movement of sisterhood and self-determination that is transforming lives and communities.
Premiering December 1, 2025, on Hulu, Living Proof celebrates their story and the unstoppable power of women leading the way toward hope, health, and a future free from stigma.
Living Proof is Executive Produced by Sheryl Lee Ralph, Zeberiah Newman, Michiel Thomas & Norman Lee and Directed by Zeberiah Newman.
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