{"id":183405,"date":"2016-01-20T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=183405"},"modified":"2016-01-20T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T15:57:09","slug":"im-disappointed-at-oscars-lack-of-diversity-lupita-nyongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=183405","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m disappointed at Oscars&#8217; lack of diversity &#8211; Lupita Nyong&#8217;o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oscar winner Lupita Nyong&#8217;o has addressed the recent controversy over the lack of diversity at this year&#8217;s Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The actress posted a message on Instagram voicing her disappointment about the &#8220;lack of inclusion.&#8221; No people of color were nominated for acting awards this year. Stars like Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee have already spoken out against the Academy, with Pinkett Smith calling for a boycott of the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In her statement, Nyong&#8217;o writes that she stands with her peers who are &#8220;calling for change in expanding the stories that are told.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-183407 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/lupita.png\" alt=\"lupita\" width=\"609\" height=\"639\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She captioned the message with a James Baldwin quote \u2014 &#8220;Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced&#8221; \u2014 and the hashtag #manystoriesmanyvoices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nyong&#8217;o won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2013 for her role in 12 Years a Slave. She&#8217;s currently starring in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar winner Lupita Nyong&#8217;o has addressed the recent controversy over the lack of diversity at this year&#8217;s Academy Awards. The actress posted a message on Instagram voicing her disappointment about the &#8220;lack of inclusion.&#8221; No people of color were nominated for acting awards this year. Stars like Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee have already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,714,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity-news","category-events","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}