Fifteen years ago, civil-rights groups, galvanized by a lineup of new network series almost entirely devoid of minority characters, sought and ultimately won agreements from major broadcasters to put programs on the air that better reflect the nation’s population, according to a story in Tuesday Style's section.
An Associated Press analysis of regular cast members on prime-time comedies and dramas on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox found progress since then in hiring black actors, but not other minorities. Casts at three of the four networks are still whiter than the nation as a whole.
Read Tuesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Style section for more.