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Bold scheduling earns Alphabet honors…Latinos are a burgeoning part of the U.S. population and a growing influence on American culture, but they’re stastically underrepresented both on TV and in TV.On TV, that is, in front of the camera, there just aren’t very many Latino characters. In TV, behind the camera, Latinos are also scarce. The 2007 Hollywood Writers Report stated that in television, “Latinos were the most underrepresented (minority) in 2005 at the rate of 6 to 1.”America Ferrera, star of ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” receives the Creative Achievement Award and Disney-ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney will accept the President’s Award on behalf of her company in recognition of its support for Imagen’s mission to give access, education and opportunity to Latinos in the entertainment industry.If you’d like to read the full article, go here.
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