A number of multi-ethnic media organizations joined together Wednesday to condemn a controversial Deadline Hollywood article that suggested the 2015 television season’s uptick in minority casting represented “too much of a good thing.”
The five-week-long and very salacious trail against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for alleged sexual discrimination against Ellen Pao went to the jury Wednesday. The former junior partner is demanding $16 million for sexual discrimination and up to $144 million for punitive damages. Her suit has paved the way for a coming tsunami of diversity litigation across Silicon Valley.
Anti-Ukip Protestors have hounded Nigel Farage, his wife and his two young daughters from a pub near their home in Kent whilst the family was enjoying a Sunday lunch. The two girls, aged just ten and fifteen, fled in terror and were missing for some time this afternoon before returning home.
According to a recently released internal memo, Starbucks baristas will no longer write “Race Together” on customers’ cups starting Sunday.
In response to an amicus brief submitted by 379 corporations and businesses encouraging the U.S. Supreme Court to declare homosexual “marriage rights,” the Cardinal Newman Society is urging Catholic schools, colleges and universities to refrain from providing honors, speaking platforms, or positions on boards and committees to the leaders and board members of these corporations.
The Fire Department of New York has sworn in its first female and first openly gay chaplain.
The second annual Hollywood Diversity Report, commissioned by UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, has been released and reveals that diversity in the entertainment industry is well behind the demographics, according to its author.
As promised, Apple will soon be giving users the option of diversifying their emojis for both smartphones and computers, which will feature new skin tone options for people, as well as a wider variety of international flags.
The Los Angeles chapter of the Al Sharpton-led National Action Network is set to hold a protest Sunday night outside the 87th annual Academy Awards near Hollywood’s Dolby Theater, over what it claims is a lack of diversity in the film business.
Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) is upset with Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs over the perceived lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominees, and he is demanding an in-person meeting over the issue.
A few days ago, a correspondent for the Jewish news site NRG donned recognizably Jewish clothing and proceeded to walk around Paris for ten hours. He wanted to see the reaction. What he experienced did not entirely surprise him, but shocked him nonetheless.
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh criticized President Obama for his comments on the “balkanization” of the media on Monday. “I thought these people all loved diversity. They preach diversity all the time” he declared, pointing to the Grammys touting diversity. Rush
In a wide-ranging interview with film critic Leonard Maltin at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, directors George Lucas and Robert Redford spoke candidly of their experiences in film, where Lucas came to the conclusion that Hollywood as a “circus.”
Computer chip company Intel has been in the news this week after it announced it will be “investing” $300 million to “improve workplace diversity”, having been pressured by activists. The money will go towards hiring and retaining more women, with
