Month: March 2017

Articles, News

Watch Riz Ahmed Speak To UK Parliament About The Importance of Diversity

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LINK: Star of Star Wars and Dead Set

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Articles

15 Racist Stereotypes Still In Comic Books Today

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LINK: What started out as power fantasies for teenage white males…

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Articles

Sesame Street Writing Fellowship Shines a Spotlight on Diversity

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Click here to read at Mental Floss.

“The main goal of the fellowship is to elevate talent from communities that are sometimes harder to spot on television.”

Six-year-old girl Zari, Sesame Workshop's first Afghan Muppet

Six-year-old girl Zari, Sesame Workshop’s first Afghan Muppet

News

The Wire’s Michael K. Williams Joins the Han Solo Movie to Make It Even More Badass

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Read all about it at io9.com.

Williams at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012

Williams at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 – Photo credit: David Shankbone

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Ursula K. Le Guin, Junot Diaz Among Inductees to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

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Read all about it at Tor.com.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz

Articles, News

Sleepless: Sarah Vaughn, Leila del Duca Bring Renaissance Romance To Comics

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LINK: A quick chat with writer Sarah Vaughn, artist Leila del Duca, and editor Alissa Sallah

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Articles, News

Journalism Fellowship Created in Honor of Gwen Ifill

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LINK: Read more at EBONY

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Donnie Yen To Headline ‘Sleeping Dogs’ For Neal Moritz’s Original Film

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Read all about it at Deadline.com.

Donnie Yen recently co-starred in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Donnie Yen . Credit: Bullets Film

Donnie Yen. Credit: Bullets Film

Articles

Daily Dead Says ‘Kong: Skull Island’ is Pure Monster Movie Magic

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Read at Dailydead.com.

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News

After 130 Years, Harvard Law Review Elects a Black Woman President

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ImeIme Umana, 24, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants

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