Oscars

Costume designer Ruth E. Carter has a distinct memory of Tina Turner telling her, “I would never wear that!” while they were on set for the 1993 biopic “What’s Love Got to Do with It.”

Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first African American woman to be president of the academy, in 2016 set in motion a plan to increase inclusion and diversity by 2020. We can now look back and see that her plan is working.

In one dumb and embarrassing split-second, Will Smith and Chris Rock managed to reinforce a couple of the worst stereotypes about Black males.