Diversity in the dorms: Roommates handle race

Dalia Colón

theGRIO REPORT - For many young adults, enrolling in college comes with a lot of firsts: their first time living away from home, first time managing their own finances and, for many, their first time living with someone of a different race...

Steve McQueen: It's shameful there aren't more black directors, actors

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Steve McQueen's next feature film, about the downward spiral of a sex addict, is titled "Shame." That's also the word he uses to decry the lack of black actors and directors in Hollywood....

Progress in hiring diverse coaches in football

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(AP) - In the past two years, 19 minority coaches have been hired at Football Bowl Subdivision or Football Championship Subdivision schools...

Video gaming industry gets low score on diversity

Kunbi Tinuoye

TheGrio REPORT -- African Americans are among the biggest consumers of gaming products but are they behind the scenes making the money...?

What sayeth the stars? Not enough minorities in Hollywood

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Hollywood (CNN) - On Tuesday, recording artist Shakira will become the first Colombian to get her name on a monument to the globe's entertainment industry: the Hollywood Walk of Fame...

Black fans have grown to love the Redskins

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The Washington Post - The affinity for the team is seen at Mount Ephraim Baptist Church on fall Sundays, when the Rev. Joseph Gilmore Jr., dismisses his parishioners at 12:30 so he can get situated in his "man cave" before kickoff...

2 years after blackface incident, community issues remain

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Daily Northwestern - 'Images like these not only serve to dehumanize all members of the black community at NU and abroad,' he wrote, 'but it points to the lack of respect for one's peers and illuminates a mentality held by a multitude of people at NU'...