LatinaLista — Today, the Kennedy Center Honors made an announcement that was music to the ears of the Latino community. They announced — after undergoing a very public takedown several months ago — that perhaps their selection process doesn’t consider as broad a range of artists as it should. Yet, until representatives of the Latino [...]
Video: Northwestern students challenge administrators and classmates to re-evaluate diversity and racism on campus
LatinaLista — The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t released their ruling yet on the college affirmative action case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin but it hasn’t stopped pundits from talking about the issue. And that’s a good thing but the people who really need to be talking about it, because it affects them [...]
Video: Speaking out for greater diversity in teen theater productions
LatinaLista — For too long, Hollywood and the greater film/theater industry have been besieged with complaints over their reluctance to feature diversity that is representative of today’s national reality. While some progress has been made, it’s still not enough. It might be because film and theater executives think diversity only means that more characters written [...]
Children’s Book Diversity: News Highlights
CBC Diversity March 7th – March 14th, 2013 ON OUR RADAR HarperCollins and Lee & Low create winning proposals for First Book’s Stories for All Project The Diversity in YA Tumblr, managed by YA authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo, is back! On Goodreads: Best YA Books with Non-White Protagonist Lovely interview with Grace Lin [...]
Latinos Lag as Tenured Faculty at Connecticut’s State Community Colleges and Universities
By Robert Cyr CTLatinoNews.com A review by CTLatinoNews.com into the number of tenured professors in the state’s four public universities, 12 community colleges, and the University of Connecticut has found that Latino professors don’t seem to be breaking through academia’s glass ceiling in significant numbers when it comes to attaining the coveted tenured faculty positions [...]
Diversifying the “Best of” Lists in Books from Young Adult to Picture Books to Graphic Novels
By Antonio Gonzalez CBC Diversity Every year, various publications and organizations will post their “Best of” lists and editor’s choice round-ups. Here are a few diversity titles that we spotted among the crème de la crème. Young Adult ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE by Benjamin Alire Saenz Simon & Schuster Books [...]
