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  • Academy Awards Barely Escape a Reprise of #OscarsSoWhite

    01/13/2020 8:35:19 AM PST · by EdnaMode · 22 replies
    Variety ^ | January 13, 2019 | Adam B. Vary
    Until Issa Rae and John Cho announced “Harriet” star Cynthia Erivo as a nominee for best actress for the 92nd Academy Awards, it was looking increasingly likely that the Oscars were heading for a repeat of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that drove the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences four years ago to aggressively begin diversifying its membership. Instead, Erivo saved the Academy from the embarrassment of yet another slate of all-white acting nominees — but just barely. This year’s Oscar nominations for acting still managed to shut out a wealth of highly regarded performances by actors of color who...
  • Obama's Valerie Jarrett retweets the Al Franken grope photo!

    11/16/2017 3:58:55 PM PST · by ETL · 73 replies
    Twitter ^ | Nov 15, 2017
    Link provided below.https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett https://web.archive.org/web/20171116230959/https:/twitter.com/ValerieJarrett https://web.archive.org/web/20171116230959/https:/twitter.com/ValerieJarrett
  • #OscarsSoWhite Creator ‘Still Waiting’ for LGBT Romantic Comedies, Disabled Superheroes

    01/25/2017 7:28:08 AM PST · by C19fan · 41 replies
    Breitbart ^ | January 24, 2017 | Daniel Nussbaum
    #OscarsSoWhite isn’t over yet, says the hashtag’s creator April Reign. When the nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were unveiled Tuesday morning, seven of the 20 acting nominations were for people of color, including a Best Actor nod for Denzel Washington (Fences), Best Actress recognition for Ruth Negga (Loving), Best Supporting Actor honors for Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) and Dev Patel (Lion), and Best Supporting Actress nods for Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures), Viola Davis (Fences) and Naomie Harris (Moonlight).
  • All-girl Ghostbusters remake criticized for racial stereotyping after white leads play [tr]

    03/04/2016 7:00:26 AM PST · by C19fan · 44 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | March 4, 2016 | Hannah Parry
    t's the film fans have been waiting decades for. And today, the first trailer for the hotly-anticipated Ghostbusters re-boot was finally released. But while many praised the hilarious clip, showing Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones battling New York's supernatural nasties, some have complained that the film is falling back on racial stereotypes. That's because, while the white leads, McCarthy, Wiig and McKinnon, play brilliant engineers, professors and scientists, Jones' character is a simple NYC subway worker.
  • Obama: 'TV shows Should Have Some Muslim Characters That are Unrelated to National Security'

    02/03/2016 2:15:54 PM PST · by wtd · 166 replies
    The Weekly Standard ^ | Feb. 03, 2016 4:57pm | Daniel Halper
    video: President Obama took on the role of television critic in remarks today at the Islamic Society of Baltimore."Our television shows should have some Muslim characters that are unrelated to national security," the president said at the mosque, "because -- it's not that hard to do. There was a time when there were no black people on television. And you can tell good stories while still representing the reality of our communities."