4
ways to
turn the
Oscars' promise of
equality and
inclusion into reality
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Until Frances McDormand took the stage to accept her Oscar in the ceremony's final minutes, the show featured a parade of good-looking, extravagantly dressed celebrities paying important lip service to
equality and
inclusion in Hollywood.*
With an empowering gesture toward all Oscar-nominated women in the building and two words ("
inclusion rider"), McDormand forced the audience to consider what needs to happen in the wake of the heady awards celebration: real action.*
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What Frances McDormand meant by an 'inclusion rider' at the Oscars
It was a moment beyond Stacy L. Smith's wildest dreams. As the founder and director of the Annenberg
inclusion Initiative at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California, Smith has spent more than a decade studying what she calls Hollywood's "epidemic of invisibility."*
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