Diversity an issue as book convention opens

By Hillel Italie

Published May 27, 2014 7:44pm ET

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Diversity an issue as book convention opens — FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2014 file photo, actress Lena Dunham attends "Howard Stern's Birthday Bash," presented by SiriusXM, at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. From Wednesday, May 28, 2014 to Saturday, tens of thousands of publishers, authors, agents and librarians will meet at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York for a convention predominantly organized by whites, spotlighting books predominantly written, edited and published by whites. Tavis Smiley is the only non-white among the 15 scheduled marquee author speakers, who also include Dunham and Anjelica Huston. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file) | Evan Agostini

NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago, guest speaker Mindy Kaling joked that publishing’s annual national convention, BookExpo America, resembled “a high school reunion where all the jocks were killed in a plane crash, and all the minorities, too.”

Little seems to have changed.

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