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Native American populations often fly under the public eye, and issues on reservations rarely make it into mainstream U.S. news coverage. U.S. culture is always described as a melting pot, a blend and mash of the culture of immigrants and […]

Diego Luna is a Mexican actor, producer and director. Both of his parents were passionate about the arts and film industry. His mother, Fiona Alexander, was a British costume designer who died in a car accident when Luna was just […]

Maziyar Jobrani, known as Maz, is an Iranian-American comedian born in Tehran, Iran, but moved to California when he was six years old. While he was born a Muslim, he describes himself as “Muslim-ish.” Jobrani was enrolled in a Ph.D. program at UCLA when he decided […]

By Alicia Bonilla One of the Diversity Symposium events at Colorado State University held in recent years focused on the symbols and history of lynching in the U.S.A. That event featured a short documentary film, “An Outrage,” at the LSC […]

In Rahul Gandotra’s short film, “The Road Home,” the main character, Pico, is struggling to identify himself in the world. On the outside, Pico appears to be Indian, and everyone in India perceives him as such. However, Pico has spent […]

“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya” was produced by Studio Ghibli in 2013, the legendary Japanese animation house that has brought us “Spirited Away,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and “The Wind Rises,” among other classics. The release of “The Tale of […]

The media has a large influence on the way we structure and even live out our lives, according to Brad Kaye, a media and communications scholar. As behaviors are performed within media texts, we encode those in our long-term memory. […]

Ask Joanes Prosper for the advice he’d give his younger self, and he’ll talk about dreams, and never, ever giving up on those dreams. Talk with him a little longer, and you quickly realize that for Prosper, founder and owner […]