Archived Race and Hollywood Project News

Past Articles

March 19, 2013 – Nichelle Nichols discusses integrating prime-time.  (Click Here.)

March 18, 2013 – Steve Harvey talks race, Hollywood, and success.  (Click Here.)

March 12, 2013 – Good Times feature film being made by Sony.  (Click  Here.)

March 5, 2013 –  Journalists for Diversity, Inc. and Loop 21 recently conducted a survey about race and media.   The organizations will host a lunch and interactive panel discussion about how race affects modern day media on March 8th, in Washington, D.C. (Click Here.)

January 28, 2013 – Thoughts on Django and the Pan African Film Festival.  (Click HERE)

January 17, 2013 – 2012 Report from NHMC castigates FOX Network Groups for poor diversity performance. (Click HERE)

January 10, 2013 – Denzel Washington and Quvenzhané Wallis only African-American actors making list of 2013 Academy Award nominees.  (Click  HERE)

January 10, 2013 – Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington and newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis nominated for Oscar, but Black actors from Django Unchained snubbed. (Click HERE)

January 7, 2013 – ‘Django Unchained’: Selling Slaves as Action Figures (Click  HERE)

January 6, 2013 – Makers of NBC’s Deception sidestep race at Television Critics Association Press Tour (Click HERE)

December 28, 2012 — UCLA Alum and LA Times columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan reviews black reactions to the controversial film Django Unchained (Click HERE)

December 12, 2012 — NAACP Image Award nominations announced (Click HERE)

October 13, 2012 — Black Families Still Missing in Prime Time (Click HERE)

October 9, 2012 — New Youtube Channel Targets Lack of Diversity in Hollywood (Click HERE)

September 28, 2012 — New DGA Study Finds Women/Minorities Still Get Few TV Directing Jobs (Click HERE)

August 30, 2012 — 6^th Annual GLAAD Network Responsibility Index released (Click HERE) To read the report (Click HERE)

July 26, 2012 — Why We Need a Cosby Show for the 2000s (Click HERE)

June 22, 2012 — Native American Comic Plays on Stereotypes (Click HERE)

June 20, 2012— MSNBC History of African Americans in Film Timeline (Click HERE)

June 20, 2012— Kelly Smith-Beaty talks Black Images on Atlanta Based Reality T.V. Shows (Click HERE)

June 8, 2012 — Rare Look at Mexican History in Film (Click HERE)

June 1, 2012 — Actor Idris Elba Gets Post-Racial (Click HERE & HERE)

May 29, 2012 — Blog Considers Reality TV and Black Role Models (Click HERE)

May 25, 2012 — Limited Expression of Homosexuality in Black Hollywood (Click HERE)

May 24, 2012 — Primary Colors:  Shonda Rhimes’s “Scandal” and the Diversity Debate (Click HERE)

May 22, 2012 — A Rather Ironic Take on “Diversity”:  “Think Like a Man” Banned in France (Click HERE)

May 21, 2012 — Transferring Stereotypes of Black Women on Reality TV (Click HERE)

May 16, 2012 — Recently Renewed “Scandal”:  Blueprint for Black Survival in TV Drama? (Click HERE)

May 16, 2012 — Article Analyzes Meaning of Recent Black TV Viewership Numbers (Click HERE)

May 15, 2012 — Article Claims Strong Year for Black Leads in TV Drama (Click HERE)