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Oscars Still So White: Academy Nominates Nearly All White Actors, Again For the second year in a row, no non-white actor was among the 20 acting nominations for the Academy Awards.

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Oscars Still So White: Academy Nominates Nearly All White Actors, Again

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Oscars Still So White: Academy Nominates Nearly All White Actors, Again

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For the second year in a row, no non-white actor was among the 20 acting nominations for the Academy Awards. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks about the awards and Hollywood's struggles with diversity with Darnell Hunt, director of UCLA's Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.