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The Emmy Awards Touts Its Diversity While Shutting Out Latino TV Shows (Again)

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:34:06 +0000

Here was a fun drinking game to have played at last night’s Emmy Awards: take a shot every time someone says the word “diversity.” By the first hour you’d already have been passed out, what with presenters and hosts alike bandying the word around to the point where it lost all meaning. This year had,

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Emmys 2017: There Were No Latino Winners on TV’s Biggest Night

Manuel Betancourt — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:31:30 +0000

For the second year in a row, the main narrative out of the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony was that the Television Academy was embracing diversity. Wins for Donald Glover (Atlanta), Sterling K. Brown (This is Us), Riz Ahmed (The Night Of), Aziz Ansari, and Lena Waithe (Master of None) offered a vision of the television industry as

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We Were Promised Peruvian Characters on ‘Gilmore Girls’ Reboot, Instead We Got Gypsy in a Bad Wig

Yara Simón — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:07:26 +0000

Despite the Gilmore Girls cast including three Latina actresses – Alexis Bledel, Liz Torres, and Rose Abdoo – there’s never been too much in Stars Hollow that speaks to our Latinidad. As a matter of fact, the most overt Latino characters ended up in Emily Gilmore’s Hartford, Conneticut kitchen. So when we learned back in

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