Since Oscars So White first trended back in 2015, after every single acting nominee was white, the academy of motion pictures arts and science has been trying to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself.

Yet even with a complete overhaul of its membership, to make it younger and more diverse — with additions such as Jordan Peele, Barry Jenkins, Janelle Monae, and Donald Glover, among others — the Academy is still made up of only 13% people of color. And reports last there’s been no significant improvement in diversity in film making with white actors securing 70.7% of the speaking roles.

And although Oscars didn’t trend this year when the nominations for the 91^st annual Academy Awards were released, it’s clear with its membership makeup and lack of nominee black actors that the Academy is still grappling with its diversity issue.

It’s a shame when Regina King, whose career has spanned three decades,earns her first oscar nominee this year for her stirring role as the matriarch in If Beale Street Could Talk. Not to mention, Spike Lee earned his first-ever directing nod in his 30-year career for BlacK Klansman; and we need not run down his receipts.

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