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Variety's Important Message About Oscars Diversity Preempted By Even More Important Message
Jordan Sargent · 01/29/16 05:30PMHey, What About All the Gay People Who Aren't Winning Oscars?
Rich Juzwiak · 01/25/16 05:40PMTwo-time Academy Awards nominee Ian McKellen has spoken out about the lack of diversity in the film industry, as it relates to being acknowledged by the Oscars (and landing the kind of roles that could yield gold-plated glory). “The fact that black people feel underrepresented in studio movies and big movies…well, it’s what women thought for a long time,” he said in an interview with the U.K.’s Press Association. “It’s what gay people like myself still think. And it’s a legitimate complaint and the Oscars has become the focus of those worries. So I sympathize.”
Twitter VP Apologizes for Alienating Minority Employees
Sam Biddle · 11/06/15 01:40PMEarlier this week, Leslie Miley, Twitter’s only black manager in the engineering department, quit because of how badly the company is managing its attempts at diverse hiring. In a blog post explaining his decision, Miley included a damaging quote from the company’s Senior VP of Engineering. Now the VP is saying he’s sorry.
Twitter Is So Hopelessly White Its Only Black Engineering Boss Just Quit in Protest
Sam Biddle · 11/04/15 04:40PMWhite People Control All the Power in Silicon Valley
Sam Biddle · 10/06/15 02:00PMLegendary Tech Investor Stumped By Names of New "Diverse" Colleagues
Sam Biddle · 09/22/15 05:01PMPeggy Noonan's Dominican Friend, Cesar, Works at the Deli Counter
Hamilton Nolan · 08/28/15 08:45AMFox News Defends Diverse Anchorwomen, Brags About "12 Non-Blondes"
Jay Hathaway · 07/14/14 12:19PMFox News has called a Facebook meme pointing out the network's abundance of white, blond-haired anchorwomen "yellow journalism" (I see what you did there) and argued that its staff is actually very diverse. Politifact found 14 blondes among Fox's female anchors and, Howard Kurtz is "relieved" to point out, a whole 12 non-blondes.
Max Read · 03/28/14 02:16PM
A Sea of White: Day Two at CPAC
Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/07/14 08:15PMWhere's Waldo: White Person in Black College Ad Edition
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/14 03:15PMSNL Hires Normal Regular Castmember Just Like They Always Hire
Caity Weaver · 01/06/14 06:05PMAbout one month after Saturday Night Live publicly announced its search to find a black woman on planet Earth, one such woman—Sasheer Zamata—has been added to the cast as a featured player. Deadline reports the Upright Citizens Brigade veteran will make her debut on the January 18th SNL episode hosted by Drake, whose appearance hopefully has already been booked and is not contingent upon Zamata knowing his phone number and being able to get in touch with him because they are both black. She is the cast's first black female member since Maya Rudolph's departure in 2007.
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 12/15/13 04:30PM
GOP Assembles All White Male Roster of House Committee Chairmen for Upcoming Congress
Neetzan Zimmerman · 11/28/12 09:11AMHamilton Nolan · 10/11/12 12:41PM
Ad Industry Forced to Give Diversity Award to White Guy
Hamilton Nolan · 09/21/11 10:21AMNot only are advertising professionals constantly making embarrassing racist faux pas, to our delight; the entire ad industry has a long and dismal history of failing at the most rudimentary "diversity" initiatives. It's run by white guys, like everything else! So the industry is taking baby steps towards true racial integration. Step one: Give Ourselves Awards.
You're Messing Up Our Neat Little Racial Categories
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/11 11:50AMWhat has happened to the neat and tidy racial divisions placed unto our planet by god himself? I'll tell you what's happened to them: lots of fucking. We can no longer tell who's what just by looking! We can no longer trust our suburban redoubts to be lily-white! We can no longer make convenient racial jokes secure in the knowledge that no one in listening range belongs to one of the ethnicities being mocked! Nooooooo!