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Actress Gina Rodriguez is catching flack and being schooled by social media users after saying Black actresses get paid more than Asian and Latina stars. As noted by atlantablackstar.com, during a roundtable talk with TV actress Ellen Pompeo, Gabrielle Union, and Emma Roberts, Rodriguez explained her fears and reservations with discussing the Hollywood pay gap. “I get so petrified in this space talking about equal pay especially when you look at the intersectional aspect of it, right? Where white women get paid more than black women, black women get paid more than Asian women, Asian women get paid more than...

Ellen Pompeo took a stand in an on camera interview for Net-A-Porter, calling out the publication during an actress roundtable interview. The “Grey’s Anatomy” star appeared in the video interview opposite Gina Rodriguez, Gabrielle Union, and Emma Roberts. When the conversation turned to representation in front of and behind the camera, Pompeo took a moment to address the elephant in the room and advocate for more inclusive sets of all shapes and sizes. “This day has been incredible, and there’s a ton of women in the room. But I don’t see enough color,” Pompeo said about the Net-A-Porter set. “I...

....High-profile actors like Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera, Eva Longoria, Gina Rodriguez and Zoe Saldana got the crows fired up at event held at Ball & Chain along Southwest 8th Street in Little Havana, Sunday....

Actor-producer Gina Rodriguez slammed the 2018 Academy Awards nominations and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for failing to nominate a single Latin actor this year.

With President Trump's plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that shields young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation dominating the news cycle, the announcement of Gina Rodriguez's production projects is extremely timely: the Jane the Virgin star is developing a pilot for the CW called Illegal that will follow an undocumented family through the eyes of the teenage son, as well as a medical drama about a doctor from a Latin American country who can't practice in America when she immigrates to Miami but opens a clinic in her apartment to...

-Outline - Rodriguez interviews Obama and at about the 3:20 mark she says that illegals are really citizens since they contribute to USA society and they are fearful of voting. Obama implies (says) it's ok for them to vote and the government doesn't track them and won't come to deport them. Listen for yourself and decide. It is all over Fox Business news

The world of television is about to get a little stranger - and a whole lot more dramatic. Jane The Virgin is gearing up for its series premiere, and its plot line has already set tongues wagging. The CW show follows a religious girl who has never had sex before, but ends up pregnant after her emotionally unstable doctor accidentally inseminates her. Unsurprisingly the series, which stars Gina Rodriguez and Jaime Camil, is already causing quite a stir. Would it happen in real life? Probably not. Does that make it any less entertaining? Definitely not. Jane The Virgin is loosely...