Hollywood Diversity
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When Joi McMillon was a junior in high school, she really wanted to be a journalist for the Orlando Sentinel.
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When Marlee Matlin was a teenager, she didn’t care about the Academy Awards.
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There was a star at almost every table: Pharrell Williams, taking daytime formal to the extreme in a NASA sweatshirt, ripped jeans and a ballcap.
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When black performers were excluded from all acting categories at the Academy Awards for a second year in a row in 2016, the shutout sparked a second year of an impassioned social-media movement: #OscarsSoWhite.
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There are few things Hollywood loves more than celebrating itself and, true to form, the nominations handed out Tuesday for the 89th Academy Awards reflected an industry happy to revel in its own glittering self-image.
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Like most people, German filmmaker Maren Ade isn’t generally in the habit of checking her spam email folder.
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ABC’s “The Bachelor” has always been full of surprises, from who will get the final rose to what romantic hopeful will bawl the loudest after being rejected.
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A group of 25 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members of Asian descent have sent a letter to academy leaders objecting to jokes mocking Asians during February’s Oscar show.
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Film studio Warner Bros. is preparing to launch a new film workshop for aspiring directors, billing the initiative as a way to boost undiscovered and underrepresented talent amid the outcry over a lack of diversity in Hollywood.
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Hey, what’s the difference between the acting nominees at this year’s Oscars and that KKK rally in Anaheim?
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Jeremy Lin thinks Chris Rock is a “funny guy.”
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Chris Rock had a tough gig Sunday night at the Oscars.
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Ralph Bunche, who was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the founders of the United Nations, presented the best picture Academy Award at the 23rd Oscar ceremony on March 29, 1951, at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.
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The singer and artist Anohni, who is nominated for an original song Oscar for her song “Manta Ray,” has issued a searing statement in which she announced that she will be boycotting the Sunday awards ceremony.
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Long before #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was embroiled in a similar controversy after Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film, “The Color Purple,” received 11 Oscar nominations but took zero golden statues.
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On Sunday night, as Sylvester Stallone tries for a supporting actor knockout at the Academy Awards for his performance in “Creed,” that film’s director and co-writer, Ryan Coogler, will not be sitting ringside.
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With a mission to uplift, empower and inspire black women -- and acknowledge and celebrate their contributions and achievements -- Essence magazine launched a private event in 2007 to do what broader Hollywood wasn’t.
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April Reign has been leading the charge -- online and otherwise -- calling for greater diversity in Hollywood with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
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When Jeff Friday founded the American Black Film Festival in 1997, he was inspired by an audience he saw during a Sundance screening of “Love Jones.”
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When the big day arrived, the Grammys, unlike the Oscars, got past questions about race.
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There have been few months in the history of the film academy as dramatic as the last two.
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The big winner at the 58th Grammy Awards ceremony on Monday night might not be any of the musicians who took home awards but the music industry’s full-court press promoting cultural diversity.
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Samantha Bee brings her satirical late-night show “Full Frontal” to TBS starting Monday night.
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BET Networks and the American Black Film Festival are partnering up to produce the 2016 ABFF Awards: A Celebration of Hollywood, the network announced Monday.
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Most award shows are air-kissy affairs, full of platitudes and over-the-top fashion.
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Could winning at the Grammys register as a loss for Taylor Swift?
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They gathered at the Beverly Wilshire, the men in tuxes, the women draped in evening gowns.
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Diversity went missing from this year’s Oscar nominations.
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Members of Congress are commending the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its new diversity initiatives, offering support as the organization moves forward with its efforts.
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ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” in its short run, has given viewers the requisite holiday-themed episodes -- Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Following outrage over the mostly white list of Oscar nominees, black people find themselves wrestling with a question posed by James Baldwin in his 1963 book “The Fire Next Time”: “Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
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The #OscarsSoWhite uproar over the lack of diversity in the Academy Award nominations the last two years and the subsequent call by some for a boycott of the ceremony played a role in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changing the rules regarding the organization’s membership.
