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A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds little evidence of Hollywood improving in the diversity of its movie characters or directors. The study has been a nearly annual effort going back to 2007, each year studying the demographics of the 100 most popular films at the North American box office. Here are some of the study's key findings f...
Despite widespread attention over diversity in the movie business, a new study finds that little is changing in Hollywood for women, minorities, LGBT people and others who continue to find themselves on the outside of an industry where researchers say inequality is "the norm."...
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- Declaring a "moral obligation" to heal the wounds of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago - more than 10 for every one of the country's 7 million people....
GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Hillary Clinton's handling of private emails disqualifies her to serve as president. His own temperament, Trump said, was his "single greatest asset" and not the national security danger that Clinton alleges....
PARIS (AP) -- Isabelle Dinoire, a Frenchwoman who received the world's first partial face transplant, has died more than a decade after a complex and daring operation that set the stage for dozens of similar transplants worldwide. She was 49....
Washington D.C., Sep 6, 2016 / 11:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Nearly 200 years after hosting a slave sale on campus in order to pay off school debt, Georgetown University has announced its intention of making amends to the descendants of those impacted by the sale, as well as to the broader community.Along with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Society of Jesus in the United States, Georgetown will offer a Mass of Reconciliation for the school’s actions.The university will also give descendants of the slave sale preferential consideration, treating them with the same consideration as the children of faculty, staff and alumni.Furthermore, the school will create a memorial to the people sold in the sale. It will rename two residence halls – originally named for the Jesuit priests who orchestrated the sale – after Isaac Hawkins, the first man sold in the 1838 sale, and Anne Marie Becraft, a local African American free woman from Washington D.C. who worked to found a s...
Scottsdale, Ariz., Sep 6, 2016 / 01:25 pm (CNA).- Parents are outraged after religious pranks at a football game in Arizona included vandalism of a statue of Mary and a dancing Jesus on the football field. A white statue of the Virgin Mary sits on a lit pillar at the entrance of Notre Dame Prep Catholic high school in Scottsdale, Arizona, greeting all who enter the grounds.Last week, ahead of a Friday night football game with rivals Desert Mountain, vandals placed a mask of Hillary Clinton over Mary’s face, an attached a sex toy lower down on the statue."It's beyond offensive. There's nothing worse than to desecrate an image of [Mary]," parent Lisa Gregory told a local CBS affiliate. "It's probably high school hijinx, but [the vandal] needs to understand that it was bigotry and intolerance. He probably doesn't realize that," she added.The Hillary mask and sex toy were quickly removed, replaced by a vase of flowers at the base of ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/John Riley, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The last three months of the Year ofMercy include jubilee celebrations for the imprisoned and for homeless people. Releasing a schedule of liturgical celebrations over whichPope Francis will preside, the Vatican included Holy Year Masses for prisonersNov. 6 and for the homeless Nov. 13. The schedule, released at the Vatican Sept. 6, also mentionshis planned trips to Georgia and Azerbaijan Sept. 30-Oct. 2, and to Sweden Oct.31-Nov. 1 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The pope also will preside over Mass with canonizations inSt. Peter's Square Oct. 16, World Mission Sunday. The pope will declare six menand one woman saints, including the Argentine "gaucho priest," Blessed Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, and Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio,a 14-year-old Mexican boy martyred for refusing to renounce his faith duringthe Cristero War of the1920s.Also on the calendar:-- Sept. 25:...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kids may get more of a sting from flu vaccination this fall: Doctors are gearing up to give shots only, because U.S. health officials say the easy-to-use nasal spray version of the vaccine isn't working as well as a jab....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Latest on the abduction and killing of Jacob Wetterling (all times local):...
