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The founder and CEO of Healthy African American Families II, Loretta Jones, received the Diane E. Watson Community Service Award from Global Officials of Dignity at the United Nations Headquarters Aug....
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Not another white Oscars telecast
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that’s the group that picks the Oscar nominees and winners, faces its first big test on Jan. 14. That’s the day that it will announce who its members...
View ArticleTHE HUTCHINSON REPORT: Time to tune out the ‘white Oscars’
Let’s talk about the only thing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that’s the group that picks the Oscar nominees and winners, understands: Dollars and cents. African-Americans spend...
View ArticleNAJEE’S NOTES: Support for Oscars’ boycott growing
They did it again! For the second year in a row the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated an all-white group of actors. Last week it was announced that no African-American talent...
View ArticleAcademy’s changes aren’t enough, say local activists
LOS ANGELES — Despite changes announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week to its voting and membership procedures, local activists say it is not enough to account for decades...
View ArticleHollywood fails women, minorities, studies show
HOLLYWOOD — With the Oscars coming up Feb. 28 amid a charged debate over diversity in Hollywood, a pair of studies released Feb. 22 by USC and UCLA drove home the point that women and minorities...
View ArticleBILL VAUGHAN’S TASTY CLIPS: Academy begins to diversify
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs made good on her promise to diversify the organization in the face of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. Last week, 683 additions...
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NAJEE’S NOTES: 89th Academy Awards is black night at the Oscars
Black night at the Oscars, more commonly known as the 89th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2016 Feb. 26 at the Dolby...
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Daveon Swan has been elected to the board of the Woodcraft Rangers, a Los Angeles nonprofit that provides after-school programs and camping to youth. Swan attended Loyola Marymount University, where he...
View ArticleBILL VAUGHAN’S TASTY CLIPS: Academy to give Charles Burnett honorary award
The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present an honorary award to writer-director Charles Burnett at the Governors Awards on Nov. 11 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom....
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