Lin-Manuel Miranda apologizes for lack of diversity in In the Heights
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msn.comto social media on Monday acknowledging that casting for his latest project, set the in diverse neighborhood of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan, had lapsed into colorism, broadly defined as prejudice or discrimination against darker skin tones within the same racial group.
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