By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Three leading civil rights organizations are requesting a meeting with the trustees of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and other film industry leaders in the wake of a lily White slate of actor nominees for the upcoming Oscars.
The National Urban League, the National Action Network and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, this week, released a statement expressing their intent to get directly involved in order to speed up the process for justice and equality in the movie industry, which draws more than a billion dollars from the Black community.
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