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British Academy Awards Makes Big Push for Diversity in Film

British Academy Awards Makes Big Push for Diversity in Film

The #OscarsSoWhite controversy came to head in 2016 when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its Oscar nominees and only white actors and actresses were among the chosen few in the top four categories for the second year in a row. Now the British Academy of Film and Television Awards, otherwise known as BAFTA, has made a bold move in the effort to make prestigious films less glaringly white.

Google CEO Cancels Company Diversity Town-Hall Meeting

Google CEO Cancels Company Diversity Town-Hall Meeting

Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled a company wide town-hall meeting to discuss diversity that was scheduled for Thursday just days after an engineer was fired for after writing a memo suggesting that women in tech are biologically inferior to men.

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