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The Washington Post
"I have never been as afraid about an episode of television that I've written in my life," "black-ish" creator Kenya Barris said in a phone interview ahead of Wednesday's episode, which deals with police brutality. The episode, titled "Hope," finds the Johnson family watching news coverage of a case involving an African American teenager. They grapple with how to talk to the family's youngest members — twins Jack and Diane — about the community reaction to the case and others like it.
Barris said that while he believes police brutality is an important issue, the crux of the episode is the challenge of talking to young children about difficult topics to which they're constantly exposed. Barris began thinking about the episode in 2014 as he and his family watched coverage of a Ferguson grand jury declining to indict a police officer for shooting an unarmed black teenager.
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Register today for NAMIC's Annual Awards Breakfast on Wednesday, May 18, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Held during the Internet & Television Expo (INTX) and presented in partnership with Multichannel News, this event recognizes Next Generation Leaders and Luminaries. In addition, NAMIC honors the recipient of the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award.
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NAMIC has opened registration for the 30th Annual NAMIC Conference. Early-bird rates will run until June 1.
This day and a half symposium has evolved into our industry's premier conference focusing on diversity and is the cornerstone of the annual Diversity Week. It is the most comprehensive educational forum addressing diversity as a strategic business imperative. The conference highlights a multiethnic agenda focused on programming, marketing, operations, technology, leadership development and creating institutional diversity change strategies.
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Los Angeles Times
A sweeping new report on the lack of diversity in Hollywood has turned up the heat on the major film and TV studios, providing further ammunition for critics who say the industry does not reflect America's demographics. The study released Monday by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism takes the country's biggest media conglomerates to task, likening the film studios to a "straight, white, boys' club."
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Variety
Telemundo news anchor Maria Celeste Arraras has a high-pressure assignment: Grilling Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP pack on issues of interest to Latino voters during the presidential debate presented by CNN, Telemundo and Salem Media Group. Arraras will be one of four panelists Thursday evening questioning the candidates alongside moderator Wolf Blitzer of CNN, CNN's Dana Bash and Salem's Hugh Hewitt.
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Variety
The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) partnered with BET Networks to produce the inaugural ABFF Awards on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton, where celebrities including Robert Downey Jr., Pharrell and Anthony Anderson gathered to celebrate African American culture and excellence in entertainment. As the male recipient of the Excellence in the Arts award, Don Cheadle voiced his appreciation for the diverse acting roles he's received throughout his career.
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Colorlines
Hudson Yang, the pre-teen star of ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," has some positive things to say about the progress of Asian-American representation on television. Yang, who plays lead character "Eddie," recently sat down with Hyphen Magazine for an interview that mainly dealt with the 12-year-old's personal life and the pressures of being on a major network show at such a young age, but he does speak briefly about the show's significance and his own racial identity.
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Star Tribune
Television has a long way to go before it accurately reflects the country’s diversity, but compared with the film world, it's a virtual rainbow coalition. Despite the progress, it still feels as though Hispanic women are woefully underserved. If there's hope that the times are changing, it's on NBC. Network brass may not say it, but they are definitely taking a cue from ABC, which reversed its fortunes a decade ago by hitching its wagon to producer and writer Shonda Rhimes, who has done more for diversity in network TV than any other single person.
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Note: There's a 10 percent discount off your NAMIC new or renewed membership when you attend a local chapter event. Inquire at the event about this promotion to receive the code.
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| Feb. 25 |
NAMIC-Philadelphia Black History Month Event |
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| March 18 |
NAMIC-Atlanta: Friday Night Jazz |
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| March 29 |
NAMIC-Denver Diversity Roundtable |
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| March 30-April 1 |
NAMIC Leadership Seminar, Washington, D.C. |
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| May 18 |
2016 Annual Awards Breakfast |
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| July 27-29 |
NAMIC Leadership Seminar, Denver |
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| Sept. 20-21 |
30th Annual NAMIC Conference |
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| Oct. 26-28 |
NAMIC Leadership Seminar, San Diego |
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Indiantelevision.com
The latest addition to the growing digital family in India, Viacom18's new digital video-on-demand (VOD) platform — VOOT — is all set to launch its service in the first week of April armed with a slew of shows from various content houses. According to information available with Indiantelevision.com, among the few production companies that Viacom18 has roped in to produce original content for VOOT are Endemol Shine India, Saurabh Tiwari Films, Colosceum Media, Frames Production Company, Sunshine Production, Shakutantalam Telefilms and Bodhi Tree.
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Fox News Latino
Univision Communications, the largest Spanish-language media organization in the U.S., announced the launching of a new campaign seeking to broaden the participation of Hispanic voters in the Republican and Democratic primaries and the presidential election. The campaign will include a digital election guide, hundreds of local events organized by Univision's 126 local radio and television stations and a bilingual tool to send text messages.
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Pew Research Center
During Saturday's Republican presidential debate in South Carolina, Marco Rubio questioned (in English) whether Ted Cruz speaks Spanish. Cruz responded in Spanish with a challenge to Rubio to discuss their views on immigration in that language. Rubio’s confrontation with Cruz, who recently became the first Hispanic to win the Iowa caucuses, was interpreted by some as a challenge to how much Cruz belongs to or identifies with the Hispanic community in the U.S. (It's worth noting that this is not a new tactic. Hispanic Democrats have been confronted before by fellow Latinos in a similar way.)
But what does the Hispanic public think when it comes to the question of whether it is necessary to speak Spanish in order to be considered Hispanic? On the one hand, Spanish is an important part of Latino culture and identity, with 95 percent of Latinos saying it is important for future generations to speak Spanish. At the same time, most Latino adults say it is not necessary to speak Spanish to be considered Latino. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey of Latinos, 71 percent of Latino adults hold that view while 28 percent say the opposite.
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Target Market News
In one of the nation's tightest, most unpredictable and consequential election seasons ever, presidential candidates have placed gaining the votes of African-Americans among their highest priorities. As a result, black media have become central to the strategies of both Democratic campaigns.
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Pew Research Center
Hispanic and black parents are significantly more likely than white parents to say it’s essential that their children earn a college degree, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Today, 86 percent of Hispanic parents and 79 percent of black parents with children under 18 say it is either extremely or very important that their children earn a college degree. By comparison, about two-thirds (67 percent) of white parents say the same.
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