Carrie Rickey / TruthdigJan 30, 2016
Voluntary steps to include more people of color and women should be a priority throughout the entire Hollywood system of moviemaking, from studios’ executive ranks to casting. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 25, 2016
Backing calls for more diversity in Academy Awards nominations, Ruffalo last week joined other Hollywood figures in criticizing the overseers of the Oscars after no black actors were nominated for the second year straight. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJan 15, 2016
It's not as though there weren't plenty of options to mix up this year's lineup of Oscar nominees. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Carrie Rickey / TruthdigJan 12, 2016
The scandal-plagued awards show gets a nod for spotting groundbreakers, but the back-scratching nature of the ceremony makes it a little hard to swallow. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigFeb 26, 2015
The political and cultural marginalization of immigrants, particularly those from Latin America, has a long and lurid background in the United States. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutFeb 23, 2015
Within the last few months, three films appeared that offer role models, however flawed, to young people while legitimating particular notions of civic courage, patriotism and a broader understanding of injustice. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 23, 2015
From “Citizenfour” director Laura Poitras' acceptance speech for the Best Documentary Oscar to host Neil Patrick Harris’ quip that the Oscars are for Hollywood’s “best and whitest,” political commentary and calls for social justice rang through last night’s 87th Annual Academy Awards ceremony. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigFeb 23, 2015
With lyrics honoring Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and even the Ferguson protest movement, musicians John Legend and Common had many Academy Awards attendees in tears. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigFeb 23, 2015
The committed artists honored at the 87th Academy Awards took advantage of their bully pulpits to make an amazing series of eloquent statements on behalf of minorities and the discriminated against. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Sonali Kolhatkar / TruthdigJan 23, 2015
"American Sniper” exemplifies a sense of macho, white male braggadocio that is symbolic of all that is wrong with the right-wing, pro-war, pro-gun, bully culture of the United States. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJan 16, 2015
The 2015 Academy Award nominations are now official, and for those willing to entertain this brand of Hollywood pageantry as a passably noteworthy indicator of sociocultural whatever, here's the lineup for this year's Oscars . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJan 9, 2015
On Jan. 6, Brian Knappenberger, director of the buzz-magnet documentary "The Internet's Own Boy," sat down with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin in Los Angeles at the Annenberg Space for Photography to talk about his iconic subject, Aaron Swartz, and the impact of his life's work and legacy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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