Oscars

The only woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress speaks out.

Straight Outta Compton’s Oscars snub was one of the factors that brought attention to the Academy Awards’ lack of diversity and stirred up a lot of controversy; but after word spread that the film’s cast members were not invited to this year’s ceremony, it added fuel to the #OscarsSoWhite fire.

With the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite inspiring dialogue around the White-washed Academy Awards, the NAACP Image Awards are even more important.

Academy searches for Black presenters to diversify Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled new plans to increase diversity among the Academy's membership.

Viola Davis won’t be at the Oscars this year. But that’s not because she’s boycotting them. She told People.com that she’ll be on vacation. Although…

They are planning to make changes in an effort to diversify their board and nominations in the future.

Jasmyne Cannick joined Roland Martin Wednesday on NewsOne Now to discuss her blog post calling for liberal Hollywood to boycott the Academy Awards and said, "I think at the end of the day, it's an easy out to call on Blacks to boycott the Oscars -- if every single one of us tuned out and didn't watch the Oscars, it really wouldn't hurt their bottom line."

With the recent boycott against this year’s Oscar Award show, a video of Eddie Murphy resurfaced from 1988 at the 60th Oscars explaining the lack of diversity in Hollywood and the Oscars.   SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtph_KfsoiE#action=share

In today's episode of Why Can't She Just Go AWAY Stacey Dash is back to bring ridiculousness to your Wednesday.

Actor George Clooney says Hollywood is “moving in the wrong direction” when it comes to diversity. A lot of media attention has been given to the lack of minority nominees in this year’s Academy Awards, but Clooney tells Variety that the problem stems from a lack of minorities in films. Clooney says African Americans aren’t […]

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