Last night's 88th annual Academy Awards was a testament to Hollywood's special talent for dismissing its shortcomings even as it acknowledges them. The awards show tried to toe a tricky line -- celebrating the night's overwhelmingly white nominees, while also calling itself and the Hollywood

There was a bright spotlight on diversity in Hollywood at the Oscars on Sunday night, in spite of an industry that largely ignores it the rest of the year.Beginning with the red carpet, stars opined on what might have been, in other years, too delicate a subject to broach: the film industry's

We've made a lot of progress in this country combating racism -- but not enough. As racist college parties, everyday tweets and the causes behind movements like #OscarsSoWhite and #Black Lives Matter show us, there's still a long way to go. Facing the reality of racism requires us to understand its

TOP STORIESLET'S ALL BE HONEST Everyone is just happy Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar, even if he had to sleep in a horse carcass to do it. Here's a list of the rest of the winners, as well as the best dressed. And pundits everywhere agree that Chris Rock was the perfect host for a

Chris Rock, you god. Tasked with tackling the complicated #OscarsSoWhite controversies, Rock returned to the Oscar stage for the first time since 2005 -- and he delivered. During Sunday's awards, where "Spotlight" took home Best Picture, Rock steered the ship with biting but even-toned jokes about