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How The Industry Is Responding To Trump’s Rollback On Diversity, Equity And Inclusion: “Let’s Just Say DEI Is Alive And Well”
Deadline speaks to Hollywood’s fiercest advocates against Trump’s DEI rollbacks — Roger Ross Williams, Ashley Eakin and Asha Chai-Chang.
The disappearance of the streetscape, put in place following the George Floyd protests in 2020, is indicative of what’s happened in Trump 2.0 — an all-out war on diversity, equity and inclusion programs, in the government and outside of it. By contrast, the March release of Snow White, with Rachel Zegler, a Latina actress, in the lead, put Disney into a bit of a crisis mode amid a loud and emboldened right-wing casting backlash. Chai-Chang, whose recent credits include the sports drama Unstoppable about the life of wrestler Anthony Robles, also works as a production accessibility coordinator for studios such as Apple TV+, Amazon and ABC.
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