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January 27, 2016
This week Hillary Clinton addressed the growing backlash over the lack of racially diverse nominees at the 2016 Academy Awards.
January 26, 2016
Whoopi Goldberg insists the Academy Awards can't be all that racist since she won, that one time - twenty five…
January 25, 2016
This weekend, Danny DeVito was at the Sundance Film Festival, and while he was there, he weighed in on the…
January 23, 2016
Finally someone has come up with a simple solution to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy... (side-eye)
January 22, 2016
President of HBO Documentary Films Sheila Nevins was moved to commission a #BlackLivesMatter documentary after hearing this year’s #OscarsSoWhite nominations.
January 21, 2016
Viola Davis says she won't be attending this year's Oscar Awards. She also sounds off on inequality in Hollywood...
January 21, 2016
Will Smith is breaking his silence about #OscarsSoWhite, announcing his intention not to attend the awards ceremony...
January 21, 2016
Actress Janet Hubert responds to critics who said that her condemnation of Jada Pinkett-Smith's Oscar boycott proposal was driven by…
January 20, 2016
Transgender actress and activist Alexis Arquette called out Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith hypocrites for calling for a boycott…
January 20, 2016
Lupita Nyong’o, who won an Oscar in 2014 for her role in 12 Years a Slave, is frustrated by the #OscarsSoWhite.
January 19, 2016
Whoopi Goldberg isn't pleased about the Oscar nominees, but she thinks folks should be mad about it more often than…
January 19, 2016
Back in 1988, Eddie Murphy took a moment to challenge the Academy to recognize the talents and contributions of black…
January 19, 2016
Snoop Dogg is echoing Jada Pinkett-Smith's sentiments that the Oscars are lacking diversity in a major way..
January 19, 2016
On Monday, Tyrese took to Instagram to air out his frustration with the lack of diversity in the Oscars, using…
January 19, 2016
With the #OscarsSoWhite again, Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs has released a statement promising “dramatic” action to step up the diversity
January 18, 2016
Director Spike Lee announced on Monday that he would not be attending the 2016 Oscars amid the #OscarsSoWhite controversy...
January 18, 2016
With the #OscarsSoWhite again, Hollywood is trying to figure out how to solve the lack of diversity in award nominations,
January 15, 2016
As the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite trends following yesterday's announcement of the Oscar nominees, even Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs is fed…
January 14, 2016
Ice Cube is speaking out about Straight Outta Compton Oscars snubs. The film was shut out of major actor and…
January 14, 2016
This year's Oscar nominations are announced and black actors are once again shut out of every category...