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*Prominent scholars will explore the current and future impact of the black church during a time of deep divisions in race, culture and religion at a Vanderbilt Divinity School conference April 3-5. Vanderbilt’s Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies will host “The Black Church’s 11th Hour: The Promise of Our Ideals and the [...]
*Last summer, TV producer Shonda Rhimes (“Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice”) took to Twitter to call out the executive producer of ABC Family’s new hit series “Bunheads” for the cast’s lack of diversity. The show is set in a small-town ballet studio and run by “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. The first of 8 new [...]
*Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive preview of next week’s episode of “The Bachelor,” in which star Sean tells one of the show’s three African American contestants that his last girlfriend was black. EW points out the irony of the conversation, considering this current season is the first to air since the show was sued for [...]
*The newly sworn-in 113th Congress is the most diverse group of representatives in history, reflecting changing demographics and changing public attitudes. According to CNN, 98 women, 43 African-Americans, 31 Latinos, 12 Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, and seven gay and bisexual members are now new members of the House and Senate. Plus, there is the first [...]
President Barack Obama was re-elected thanks to a coalition that made him the first African American President. However, this time his victory puts a brighter spotlight on diversity in America. *The 332 Electoral College votes (270 to win) Obama garnered to Mitt Romney’s 206 was made possible by a coming together of racial groups and [...]
*Long before America elected its first African American president – twice – there was a primetime TV drama that celebrated diversity in its own way – by drawing a large number of black viewers despite having little to no African American actors in the cast. “In fact, I think we had the number one black [...]
*Here we go again! We’re trying to figure out whether race and gender is indeed a factor in the advantages provided in America and is it hindering or helping the individuals it aims to support. The short answer is HELL YES! You know and I know that the racial issues in America are not waning, [...]
*Black journalists – including one who’s moderated past vice presidential debates, Gwen Ifill – are tired of being pushed to the back seat, and the National Association of Black Journalists is making sure the big wigs of the presidential debates know it. The group announced Friday that the Commission on Presidential Debates needs to stop discriminating [...]
*The National Association of Black Journalists said Friday that it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The group said the Commission on Presidential Debates needed to stop treating black reporters as if they were unqualified, invisible or both. The group [...]
*Make marijuana legal, is Morgan Freeman’s cry. The 75-year-old actor chatted about his views regarding weed during an interview with Newsweek recently. “Marijuana! Heavens, oh yeah. It’s just the stupidest law possible, given history,” he lamented. “You don’t stop people from doing what they want to do, so forget about making it unlawful. You’re just [...]
*Everyone knows that network television has been lacking in diversity for as long as television has existed. It’s been nearly over 20 years since a family show or any show with a black cast has been on the three big networks dominating the ratings. Shonda Rhimes is definitely qualified to weigh in on the lack [...]
*“Think Like A Man” has been a huge success in the US, now it wants to do its thing overseas. But it was stopped in its racks in France after being banned due to its supposed all black cast. A dubious reason if we ever heard one. France has gradually tearing down its open arms [...]
*Frequent EURweb columnist Dr. Boyce Watkins recently noticed something in a picture he got from President Obama’s campaign team in Chicago. Take a look at the photo above What do you see missing? Anything stand out? Well, Boyce recently wrote a piece for NewsOne in which he talks about the lack of black faces in [...]
*Late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart had reportedly promised to release footage of President Barack Obama before his sudden death last week that he said would change the election. Now, BuzzFeed has unearthed the video it believes Breitbart was referring to, according to the site’s editor-in-chief, Ben Smith. In the 1991 video, which BuzzFeed licensed from [...]
*When it comes to the big screen, and even the small screen, there’s no question that black and brown faces are hard to come by in significant roles. Even in the independent film industry, where artists have a bit more freedom, the diversity is still lacking, says filmmaker Spike Lee. The Brooklyn native premiered the [...]
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