New Study Proves Diversity Officially Sells, So It's Time Hollywood Cut The Crap

It's a vicious cycle. The industry likes to present itself as this bastion of liberal thought. But when it comes to diversity, it's one of the worst industries in this country. The idea that [the underrepresentation of minorities and women] is all about economics has been taken off the table. –Darnell Hunt of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA

Cast of the Netflix series
"Orange is the New Black"

Check out this blog by Alanna Bennett in Bustle regarding the new study from the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at University of California-Los Angeles which states that television programs with a high degree of nonwhite characters in its cast have the highest ratings (and analogously, the films with a high degree of diversity in its cast earn the most revenue) by clicking here.