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The Art of Diversity

Culture in America is likely to be spelled these days with a hyphen. Watch it on TV. There’s Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be […]

Ignoring Diversity, Runways Fade to White

By Guy Trebay
IN the days of blithe racial assumptions, flesh crayons were the color of white people. “Invisible” makeup and nude pantyhose were colored in the hues of Caucasian skin. The decision by manufacturers to ignore whole segments of humanity went unchallenged for decades before the civil rights movement came along and nonwhite consumers started […]

Myth of Newspaper Diversity Shattered

By Makebra M. Anderson
NNPA National Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite all of the professed interest in diversifying newsrooms, almost three-fourths of American newspapers employer fewer people of color than they did in earlier years, according to a new study.
An analysis done by Bill Dedman and Stephen Doig for the Knight Foundation, a Florida-based organization affiliated with […]

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