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Hollywood's Decade Of Diversity And Activism

It's been a defining decade for Hollywood.
It's been a defining decade for Hollywood. (David McNew/Getty Images)

From the #OscarsSoWhite movement in 2016 to audiences buying out cinemas to see “Black Panther” and “Crazy Rich Asians” and the #MeToo movement, it’s been a defining decade for Hollywood.

The last 10 years marked a public call for gender parity and more leadership roles for women, but those cries didn’t really take off until about halfway through the decade, says Piya Sinha-Roy, senior film editor for the Hollywood Reporter. 

“It’s been funny to actually look back now at the beginning of the decade and at the beginning of my career and realize that, conversations around race were not really being had,” she says. “The very few times I even brought it up would be for films that particularly dealt with the topic. But even outside of that,

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