During this year’s Academy Awards telecast as actress Frances McDormand accepted her Oscar for Best Actress, many were scrambling to find out what she meant when she stressed the use of inclusion riders in Hollywood and on future projects. Well actor Michael B. Jordan apparently took her words to heart because he just made a […]
Marvel Comics character Riri Williams, an African-American woman superhero, was featured in MIT’s admissions video.
The University of Wisconsin student government proposes free tuition for Blacks. They get push-back from school administration.
Donald Trump’s administration has decided to refrain from sending his spokespeople to appear on CNN.
Sam’s Club CEO Rosalind Brewer will step down after five years.
NewsOne Now panelists clash over the notion of Black Republicans aligning with African-American issues.
Although the media has come a long way with representation of people of color on screens, there’s still work to do. Earlier this week, Variety published a list of Hollywood actors & their respective per-episode salaries, but unfortunately, minority actors make considerably less than white actors. According to reports, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson commands a whopping $400,000 per […]
For her new family drama on OWN, titled Queen Sugar, DuVernay made it clear that casting minorities in front of and behind the camera was a conscious effort.
The search engine giant became focused on diversity after reports from 2014 showed that the company composed of the following: 60 percent were White and 31 percent were Asian, while 3 percent were Hispanic and 2 percent were Black.
The Court of Special Appeals in Maryland, the state’s second-highest court, has ordered another trial and restored charges against a man from Northwest Baltimore who was acquitted in the murder of North Carolina native Phylicia Barnes. The court says Circuit Judge John Addison Howard committed a mistake in January 2015 when he acquitted Michael Johnson of […]
The Tony Awards set the bar for diversity on Sunday evening as several actors and actresses of color were recognized for their work; a major difference from the #OscarsSoWhite controversy that ensued earlier this year. For the first time in the ceremony’s history, four musical acting awards were nabbed by Black actors. Broadway hit show […]
The 70th Annual Tony Awards, which took place on Sunday in the wake of the devastating Orlando tragedy, changed the game this year when all four musical acting awards went to people of color. Broadway’s history has been transformed thanks to three Hamilton cast members and one star from The Color Purple who have cemented their names in American culture […]
