Issa Rae believes the real reason you’re seeing more diversity on TV is all about the green. There was once a time where you would be hard-pressed to find more than a handful of token Black characters, playing a supporting role to the main cast. These days, there are a few shows we are heading […]
At HelloBeautiful, our stance on being pro-Black woman and pro-Black girl are definitely loud and clear, but we do know how to share the love as well. We appreciate any woman who aspires to be great and has made the moves to achieve their dreams to its full potential. And it’s not like we’re not counting […]
Women literally make up half of the workforce, but only about 15 percent of those women are represented in top executive spots at Fortune 500 companies. Those numbers are even more heartbreaking when you factor in women of color. African-American women represent 1.1 percent of corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies, which equals a sad 106 […]
Do your local media outlets represent the stories, issues and people of your community? The authors behind a pilot study commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission were gearing up to answer this important question. The study’s main objective? To investigate whether whether local news outlets were meeting the information needs of their communities, particularly regarding women and people […]
Google Doodles have become the new honorary postage stamps. Launched in 2001, the illustrations and animations that replace the Google logo to celebrate national holidays and historical birthdays are seen by hundreds of millions of people. While some people see these drawings as a way to “humanize the homepage”–as described by one Google engineer–others are critiquing the […]
At a recent luncheon celebrating the 2014 Oscar nominees, a group of A-list stars, directors, sound mixers and more gathered round a life-size model of the historic golden trophy for a class photo. The resulting image (above), noticeably overrun by white males, underlines the Hollywood entertainment industry’s ongoing diversity problem. Validating this issue with a […]
Jerry Seinfeld recently made some pretty bold and unpolitically correct statements surrounding race and gender in comedy and one Black comedienne, Nicole Byer is not having it! During an interview for the BuzzFeed Brews series, BuzzFeed‘s Peter Lauria nervously told Seinfeld “I have noticed that most of the guests are mostly White males.” Then Lauria […]
Zoe Saldana weighs-in on the lack of racial diversity on Vanity Fair’s recent Hollywood issue cover, saying that she’s very grateful to America, despite all of its flaws.
