Black Millennials are more confident than any other young group that they can make a difference through political participation – 71 percent, compared with 52 percent of white Millennials and 56 percent of Latino Millennials, according to the study by the Black Youth Project at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. Yet more than half of black Millennials also said they had been the victim of police violence or harassment or knew someone who had.

"Black millennials report the highest level of confidence that they have the skills and knowledge to exercise their political voices and participate in politics," writes Jon Rogowski, a political scientist at the University of Washington in St. Louis and a co-author of the "Black Millennials in America" report, in an e-mail to the Monitor. "But [they] also express the greatest frustration with current political leaders."

From the CS Monitor, via nsippets.

And Aziz Ansari in the NY Times, thinking thourgh why there are so few Indian actors on TV and film.

Here's a game to play: When you look at posters for movies or TV shows, see if it makes sense to switch the title to "What's Gonna Happen to This White Guy?" ("Forrest Gump," "The Martian," "Black Mass") or if there's a woman in the poster, too, "Are These White People Gonna Have Sex With Each Other?" ("Casablanca," "When Harry Met Sally," "The Notebook"). Even at a time when minorities account for almost 40 percent of the American population, when Hollywood wants an "everyman," what it really wants is a straight white guy. But a straight white guy is not every man.