All posts tagged "diversity"

  • 88th Academy Awards - Show
    Asian American jab at Oscars reveals deeper diversity woes

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — TV’s “Fresh Off the Boat” creator Nahnatchka Khan was reveling in Oscar host Chris Rock’s deft comedic assault on white-fixated Hollywood. Then three Asian American kids were brought onstage for a gag mocking...

    • Posted March 5, 2016
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  • Host Chris Rock speaks at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
    Critics of Oscars show say diversity talk was too narrow

    NEW YORK (AP) — As Felix Sanchez watched the Academy Awards ceremony, he kept wondering when all the talk of diversity from host Chris Rock and others would itself become more diverse. “I was shocked that Latinos...

    • Posted February 29, 2016
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  • cbi
    Oscars committed to culturally diversifying its membership: chief

    BUSAN (Yonhap) — The organization that gives out Academy Awards has “really begun” diversifying its membership, an issue it has faced for decades, its chief said Wednesday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has frequently...

    • Posted October 6, 2015
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  • nypd
    [NY1] Wave of Asian Americans adds diversity to NYPD

    Officer James Li says it has always been his dream to wear a police uniform. “Since I was like five years old, I always wanted to become a cop, and I did it, became a cop,”...

    • Posted May 28, 2015
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    US experiencing 2nd immigration wave

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff According to a USA Today analysis on a metric called the Diversity Index, there will be less than a one in three chance that the next stranger you meet in...

    • Posted October 24, 2014
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