Sunday’s Academy Awards was championed by many for its diversity. The program had big wins for people of color. Quite a few also presented awards.…
Google Doodles have become the new honorary postage stamps. Launched in 2001, the illustrations and animations that replace the Google logo to celebrate national holidays…
A brand new infographic highlights just how white and male the Academy Awards really are. According to research by book publisher Lee & Low, since the…
At a recent luncheon celebrating the 2014 Oscar nominees, a group of A-list stars, directors, sound mixers and more gathered round a life-size model of…
Jerry Seinfeld, Nicole Byer *In a recent interview, it was pointed out to Jerry Seinfeld that his Crackle series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” which…
Jerry Seinfeld recently made some pretty bold and unpolitically correct statements surrounding race and gender in comedy and one Black comedienne, Nicole Byer is not…
Despite plans from the banking industry to add more than one million jobs between now and 2020 and data revealing that Blacks are obtaining more…
For iPad/iPhone users: I want you to read something that caught my attention this week: “When we have more national championships than we do black…
For the last couple of years, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been accused of having lack of diversity. Now the students ,…
*Civil rights group ColorofChange.org is asking “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels to address the show’s lack of black female cast members and has…
The sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” has been on the air longer than many of the current cast members have been alive. However,…
Coming to PBS in June is a documentary that explores the beauty and grace of African-American funerals. “Homegoings” (airing June 24, 10 to 11 p.m.), from filmmaker Christine Turner, is told through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens and filmed at his Harlem-based Owens Funeral Home. It takes an up-close look at the […]
