This year’s Sundance film festival got off to a strong start over the weekend as celebrities and fans (and reporters) descended on Park City to catch some of this year’s most anticipated movies and events as well as star-studded panels. While the entertainment menu ranged from foreign documentaries to Lil’ Jon and Post Malone performances, […]
Words by Shatay Speights Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Model Salem Mitchell is fed up with people whose first way of describing black women as ghetto. The 20-year-old was featured in a Vogue post on Instagram that highlighted models who were getting in their daily dose of self-love, whether on laid across a yoga mat […]
Words by Jason Cordner Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information As Major League Baseball continues to be aggressive in finding creative ways to promote diversity and inclusion, the league has announced a new Front Office Diversity Initiative through a masterfully constructed MLB Diversity Fellowship Program. Creating Opportunity For The Culture Advertisement This new front office diversity […]
Hospitality service AirBnb has been the subject of much criticism in the past for its enabling of discrimination on its home-sharing platform. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information In a slew of public relations initiatives, the company has attempted to clean house in displaying its push for diversity and inclusion and its latest move comes with […]
According to Halle Berry her historic Oscar win in 2002 hasn’t done much to reshape the racial landscape of Hollywood. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information During a talk with Teen Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Elaine Welteroth at this year’s Cannes Lions Festival, she discussed her sentiments about the boycott that took place in 2015 against the Oscars after […]
Hollywood is majorly “whitewashed” and “still functions as a straight, white, boy’s club,” according to a new study. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The recently conducted Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity at USC is one of the most thorough and critical reports on the “inclusion crisis” in Hollywood, examining 10 major media companies including Netflix, […]
The second annual Black Tech Week runs from February 14-20 in Miami, Florida. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The event is a week of education, networking, and presentations from people of color to people of color active in the tech industry. Speakers include representatives from SnapChat, Rose Digital, Silicon Valley Bank and many more. Hip […]
Well, that didn’t take long. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information After the Oscar nominees were announced last week, an onslaught of commentary regarding the lack of diversity in this year’s awards hit every social media platform—enough so that #OscarsSoWhite was trending on Twitter. Early this morning [Tuesday, January 19] the President of The Academy, Cheryl […]
Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information This past weekend Spike Lee received an honorary Oscar, and in his acceptance speech he took the time to address Hollywood’s diversity deficit. Lee and two other special recipients were honored at the Academy’s annual Governors Awards in Hollywood. Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, and Wesley Snipes presented the director with the […]
