When Will Hollywood Figure Out That Diversity Sells?
The Most Successful Movies and TV Shows Reflect America’s Demographics, But Executives, Writers, and Directors Are Still Catching On
Just a few days after an Academy Awards ceremony that host Neil Patrick Harris joked honored “Hollywood’s best and whitest,” entertainment insiders at a “Thinking L.A.” event co-presented by Zócalo, UCLA, and UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies addressed the lack of diversity in the industry head-on. In front of a full house at the ArcLight Hollywood, they discussed why the people we see onscreen don’t reflect the demographics of the country, their experiences as minorities in Hollywood, and the Bunche Center’s just-released Hollywood Diversity Report.
Bunche Center …
