Is Hollywood Finally Becoming Color-Blind?

It may be a bum year at the box office, but this year’s crop of summer blockbusters suggests that Hollywood may finally be getting over a hump that has plagued it for decades: racial inequality both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. “Black filmmakers and actors and those who work with them echoed that sense of progress, pointing especially to evidence that white audiences – spurred by the 20-year-old hip-hop revolution – are going to films that might once have been seen as an African-American preserve.”