News From A Colorful Perspective
Ahead of the 89th Academy Awards show on Sunday, UCLA has released its annual Hollywood Diversity report, which highlights that diversity means higher financial returns on productions. The report, generated through the university’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, examined the 200 top-grossing theatrical film releases in 2015,…
If one wants to build the prototypical Hollywood film, you would start with a white, heterosexual, able-bodied male lead, a new study confirms. The study, conducted by the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, shows that the gender…
Advocates for people with disabilities think it is time for them to be included in Hollywood’s push for more diversity both in front of and behind the camera. Over the past two Hollywood awards’ seasons, high profiled actors have used their two minute acceptance speeches to exploit the lack of…
An executive shake-up resulted in Channing Dungey making history Feb. 17 when shewas named entertainment president of ABC television network, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company (No. 34 on the 2015 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list). Dungey is the first Black person and first Black woman…
By Sheryl Estrada The #OscarsSoWhite hashtag from 2015 resurfaced on Twitter Thursday following the announcement of 2016 Academy Awards nominations. In a repeat performance, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Academy Award voters have selected exclusively white nominees. The 20 actors and actresses nominated in the four acting…
By Sheryl Estrada Actresses America Ferrera (left) and Eva Longoria at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 10. At the 2016 Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Sunday night,actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoriaused wit to make a point to Hollywood about its subtle racism:stop consistently mistaking Latina actresses for…
By Sheryl Estrada It’s not a news flash that major Hollywood films lack diverse characters.The acting nominees for this year’sAcademy Awards were solely white actors and actresses. However, more jarring evidence has been revealed. The study “Inequality in 700 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Character Gender, Race and LGBT Status”…
By Sheryl Estrada Actresses Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson. Photos by Shutterstock. Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson have made history in Hollywood. The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced Thursday, and it is the first time two black actressesearned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in…
By Sheryl Estrada According to “2015 Hollywood Diversity Report: Flipping the Script,” which makes a correlation between diversity and revenue in Tinseltown, business as usual “may soon be unsustainable” as “diversity sells.” The report is the second in a series from the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies…
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