The Academy just took a huge step toward ending #OscarsSoWhite
 

The Academy just took a huge step toward ending #OscarsSoWhite
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LOS ANGELES — For all the grief the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has taken for*#OscarsSoWhite — much of it deserved, some incidental to the industry it represents — you can't say they haven't made an effort to make this right. **t after Wednesday, anyway.

AMPAS just an**unced its incoming class for 2016:*683 active actors, directors, writers and other Hollywood operators. And get this: 41% of those are people of color.

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That new infusion moves the needle from 8% people of color in the Academy overall (an abysmal number) to 11% (a somewhat less abysmal number). But that's how you turn an aircraft carrier — one hard-fought degree at a time. Read more...


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