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...like Rent either. That show, for all its breakthroughs, had an audience dominated largely by white kids from the suburbs. Meanwhile, Broadway audiences have been growing steadily more diverse in recent years; according to Theater League figures, about 26% of all Broadway theatergoers last season were non-Caucasian, a record high. One big reason was The Color Purple, the hit musical based on Alice Walker's novel of the same name, backed by the seemingly unstoppable Oprah Winfrey...
...over private banking. That's because a child has only between one in 1,000 and one in 200,000 chance of needing an infusion of his own cord blood later in life. More public contributions would expand the ethnic diversity in the donor pool, which now predominantly favors Caucasian recipients. What's more, many conditions treated today with cord-blood stem cells are most successful when the donor is not related to the recipient, says Dr. Kent Christopherson, a hematologist at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. "Odds are you'll never need your own cord blood, but actually...
...Ruby Dee, for American Gangster). The Spirit Awards' Best Supporting Male category had three African Americans (Chiwetel Ejiofor, for Talk To Me; Marcus Carl Franklin, for I'm Not There; and Kene Holliday, for Great World of Sound), one Indian (Irfan Khan, for The Namesake) and one under-appreciated Caucasian comic in a dramatic role (Steve Zahn, in Rescue Dawn). Eljiofor...
...highlights the founding of the group. The piece displays a great sense of optimism: In it, the leaders of the organization express their desire to work with the Half-Asian People’s Association, and to welcome other mixed students, not just the those of African-American and Caucasian descent. But when I arrived last fall, ReMixed was nowhere to be seen...
...Hollywood to hone his skills, he found himself filling the archetypal role of the understudy who becomes a star. The head makeup artist on the film My Geisha wasn't available and Uemura had to step in and do Shirley MacLaine's face for the movie, transforming her Caucasian features into those of a Japanese courtesan. He soon became a favorite makeup artist among Hollywood stars, including such male celebrities as Frank Sinatra and Edward G. Robinson...