Fortnite’s Party Royale To Air We The People For July 4
SOURCE: Opus United
“ØPUS UNITED presents We The People, a series of conversations that advance the dialogue around race in America with prominent BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) voices in business, sports, media, music, and entertainment.”
Presented by Opus United, Fortnite’s Party Royal plans to air, We The People, part of a series of conversations around race in America, on July 4th. It will be hosted by Van Jones with the discussion centered around systemic racism in media, culture, and entertainment.
✊🏿 Saturday, July 4 at @ 8:46am CDT (9:46am EDT) in Party Royale [in honor of the length of time officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck in Minneapolis].
✊🏿 Features former Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief Elaine Welteroth, Atlantic writer Jemele Hill, rapper and activist Killer Mike, and hip hop musician Lil Baby.
✊🏿 To watch: log in to Fortnite during showtime, select “Party Royale” mode. Once in, head to the big screen on the Western side of the island.
✊🏿 Epic Games debuted Party Royale in April, a separate social space separate from the main Battle Royale mode.
✊🏿 Following its Party Royale debut, We The People will re-air multiple times -- every other hour for 24 hours -- through the day on July 4.
Fortnite has hosted a bevy of digital acts most notably, virtual concerts from musicians like Diplo, Deadmau5, and Travis Scott’s Astroworld in April that drew 27.7M unique players in-gameacross the five events.