On this day in 2013, longtime film marketing and public relations executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs was elected as the 35th president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is the first Black person to hold the post and just the third woman to do so.   Isaacs was born in 1949 and […]

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In response to #OscarsSoWhite, the film academy is now pledging to double the number of female and minority members by 2020, and will immediately diversify its leadership by adding three new seats to its board of governors, reports the Associated Press. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the changes Friday, following a weeklong storm of […]