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Issa Rae will host Rihanna’s fourth annual Diamond Ball next month, and Childish Gambino will perform.

Rihanna’s black-tie event will take place Sept. 13 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans will receive the 2018 Diamond Ball Award. The gala will benefit Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, which promotes education and arts globally and assists emergency response programs.

Rae, the creator and writer behind the HBO hit “Insecure,” earned an Emmy nomination for her leading role in the show. Grammy-winning Childish Gambino, also known as Emmy-winning actor Donald Glover, has hits like “This Is America” and “Redbone.”

Last year’s Diamond Ball raised $5 million, was hosted by Dave Chappelle and featured performances by Kendrick Lamar and Calvin Harris.

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ spurs excitement over representation

The upcoming release of “Crazy Rich Asians” has a lot of Asian-Americans excited because it’s been more than two decades since a major Hollywood studio made a movie with a predominantly Asian cast. They see it as a win for diversity and representation.

The movie is a romantic comedy about a middle-class Chinese-American woman who finds out her boyfriend’s family in Singapore is, well, crazy rich. But some critics have pushed back, saying the movie centers on already well-represented parts of Singapore and ignores that country’s minority communities.

The Warner Bros. release comes out Wednesday.

It’s directed by Jon M. Chu and includes Asian-American actresses Constance Wu and Awkwafina, British Malaysian newcomer Henry Golding, and Malaysian star Michelle Yeoh.