LETTER: IP law community must push back against industry award organisers
Is the lack of representation a reflection of the state of transformation and diversity in the legal industry as a whole, or is the methodology of the whole ranking and accolades index questionable?
02 July 2020 - 13:18
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first black actor to win an Academy Award. The Oscars were held in a "whites only” hotel so, after accepting her award, she was forced to sit at a segregated table, away from the rest of the cast of "Gone with the Wind".
Eighty years later, the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite speaks for a world that waits for a system created by white males to properly recognise the beauty and significance in movies made by women and people of colour...
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