{"id":2215,"date":"2017-02-27T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2017-02-27T16:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:34:19","slug":"academy-award-goes-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2017\/02\/27\/academy-award-goes-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Academy Award goes to&#8230; diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/02\/94861914_moonlight1_reuters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2216\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/02\/94861914_moonlight1_reuters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/02\/94861914_moonlight1_reuters.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/02\/94861914_moonlight1_reuters-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">You might have missed it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-39099454\" class=\"story-body__link\">amid all the hubbub<\/a>, but a film about a gay black man just won the best picture Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but one of Moonlight&#8217;s stars &#8211; Mahershala Ali &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-39102290\" class=\"story-body__link\">became the first Muslim actor<\/a> to win an Academy Award.<\/p>\n<p>And best supporting actress Viola Davis, star of Fences, made history as the first black woman to win an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony for acting. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-39102693\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have missed it amid all the hubbub, but a film about a gay black man just won the best picture Oscar. Not only that, but one of Moonlight&#8217;s stars &#8211; Mahershala Ali &#8211; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,9,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age","category-diversity","category-ethnicity","category-inclusion","category-lgbt","category-race"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}