Gene Simmons Calls for Action Against Hate at CCFP's Gala: 'We Cannot Be Passive'

Gene Simmons, Erin Foster and Lynn Harris were among the honorees at the Creative Community For Peace's eighth annual Ambassadors of Peace gala in mid-October. The event, hosted by the entertainment non-profit CCFP, was attended by 600 artists and industry leaders, there to support the list of honorees that also included Atlantic Music Group President Kevin Weaver and Hybe America's President of Music, Ethiopia Habtemariam. "Hate spreads like a cancer, and we must stop the hatred now. Today," Simmons said at the event. "And we cannot be passive about it." Simmons was joined at the . . .