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This year’s Emmy Awards awarded and recognized diversity through historic wins and acceptance speeches that focused on activism.

The Hollywood film industry has been heavily criticized in the past because of the lack of representation and diversity among casts of films and movies. In recent years, the rise of social media and the ability to state our thoughts on a public platform have upped the conversation around this issue — and the 71st Emmy Awards, which aired September 22, 2019, was no exception.

Some would say the Emmys has yet again presented white visually representing winners with little diversity.

The 70th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards had the most diverse group of nominees in Emmy history. To celebrate, the program started with a song entitled “We Solved It,” touting how the Emmys had solved the lack of diversity in Hollywood. […]

Christine Manzanares is often mistaken for a woman of Latina descent. When people take the time to ask about her story, she’ll gladly tell it. She was born in Seoul, South Korea in a military hospital. Her father was an […]

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As discussed in Part I of this series, family can often be the core component of life. For Smoochie Setzke, this is also the case. Smoochie Setzke is a Native American, Hispanic, and white woman who was born and raised […]

This is a street cat in Shanghai; her name is Mimi. I’ve been feeding her for more than seven years before I studied abroad. When I was 13 years old, my family moved to a new house. I saw a […]