{"id":4109,"date":"2011-03-03T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4109"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:31:40","slug":"idris-elba-%e2%80%98the-oscars-aren%e2%80%99t-designed-for-us%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4109","title":{"rendered":"Idris Elba: \u2018The Oscars Aren\u2019t Designed For Us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fitting close to Black History Month, actor <strong>Idris Elba<\/strong> was the featured speaker for the Lens Project\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtist Spotlight\u201d series, held at the Paul Robeson Center of Rutgers University\u2019s Newark campus.<\/p>\n<p>On the Golden Globes and this year\u2019s Oscar \u2018white-out\u2019: \u201c<strong>Halle Berry<\/strong> and I were the only two black actors nominated for this year\u2019s Golden Globes (<strong>Idris<\/strong> for Luther and <strong>Halle<\/strong> for Frankie &amp; Alice). The Oscars aren\u2019t designed for us\u2026let\u2019s focus on making more films.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fitting close to Black History Month, actor Idris Elba was the featured speaker for the Lens Project\u2019s \u201cArtist Spotlight\u201d series, held at the Paul Robeson Center of Rutgers University\u2019s Newark campus. On the Golden Globes and this year\u2019s Oscar \u2018white-out\u2019: \u201cHalle Berry and I were the only two black actors nominated for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}