Attorney Antonio Moore and Political Commentator Yvette Carnell discuss the recent debate about Affirmative Action. The two use the lens of American history, and more importantly American slavery to detail the flaws in the policy as it shifted from corrective action for racism, to a focus on diversity. Their discussion delves deep into the backgrounds […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2016 “Moonlight” won best picture and “Hidden Figures” was the 14th highest grossing film of the year, but popular Hollywood films remained as white and male-dominated as ever. A new report from the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and […]
07/27/17 Victoria Rowell talks about her new show ‘The Rich & The Ruthless’. Rowell says,”I have now a home to show a black soap opera from our perspective”. Black people are one of the most unrepresented in media and especially in soap operas. This is her passion project as it’s important for her to show […]
Marvel Comics character Riri Williams, an African-American woman superhero, was featured in MIT’s admissions video.
The University of Wisconsin student government proposes free tuition for Blacks. They get push-back from school administration.
The portrayal of this beautiful, chocolate family is everything!
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Burton is getting criticized on social media over his explanation on why his new movie’s cast is overwhelmingly white. The major characters in Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” are all white, save for Samuel L. Jackson‘s Barron. When asked about the lack of a diverse cast, Burton told […]
This is the first time in history that all four acting awards in musicals were awarded to performers of African descent.
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — In four years at Clemson University, the rotting bananas hanging from an African-American history banner on campus weren’t the most racially offensive thing biology major Brendan Standifer has seen. They were just the latest. Standifer said a quiet racial schism runs through the campus. “The only time you see true unity […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are “whitewashed,” and that an “epidemic of invisibility” runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people. A study to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Joseph Fiennes is defending himself in the wake of criticism after being cast as Michael Jackson in an upcoming half-hour TV special, acknowledging the topic is “sensitive” but never intending it to be divisive. The white actor will play the King of Pop in the upcoming Sky Arts comedy “Elizabeth, Michael, […]
Despite giving a thumbs up to the Academy for taking steps to increase diversity among its membership, don’t expect Ava DuVernay to use that word to express the hot issue when it comes to the racial and gender imbalance in Hollywood. “We’re hearing a lot about diversity. I hate that word so, so much,” the […]
