The Los Angeles Times quoted Dan Schnur on a GOP policy advisor who is running for state controller. "If California Republicans are ever going to reemerge as a competitive force in the state, it’s going to require candidates like Lanhee Chen," Schnur said.
Today featured Alan Abrahamson on sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson's fans insisting on a second chance after her suspension for a failed drug test. "There perhaps has not been a female American sprinter to capture the imagination like Sha'Carri Richardson since Florence Griffith Joyner in the 1980s," he said.
In an article about the film In the Heights, NBC News cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the percentage of Latino characters with speaking roles in popular movies.
The Hill quoted Christina Bellantoni about the controversy surrounding a Rhode Island senator's membership in an exclusive beach club.
Scientific American featured research by doctoral student Ho-Chun Herbert Chang on how mathematicians defined as "elite" are usually American or European. "This is urging elite institutions to think carefully about how they can help elevate underrepresented mathematicians," he said.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Roberto Suro on President Biden's shift on comprehensive immigration reform. “Comprehensive immigration reform was already dead," Suro said. "It was dead for years. Now it’s really dead.”
The New York Times quoted Carmen Lee in an article about a new report from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the lack of diversity in the music industry.
The Los Angeles Times cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the low percentage of speaking roles in top movies that went to Latinos.
NPR featured research by Stacy Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the low percentage of speaking roles for Muslim characters in recent popular films.
The Los Angeles Times featured an article by Heather John Fogarty on Michele Harper, an ER physician who wrote a book about being a Black woman in a largely white male profession. "Harper gives voice and humanity to patients who are marginalized and offers poignant insight into the daily sacrifices and heroism of medical workers," she wrote.
USA Today cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the low percentage of speaking roles in top movies that went to Latinos.
The Los Angeles Times featured research by Stacy Smith of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the extremely low percentage of speaking roles for Muslim characters in recent popular films. The study will power a new Blueprint for Muslim Inclusion, which is focused on Muslim representation in media.