What did the Oscars 2021 say about race? Tyler Perry, Regina King and others stood up to prejudice at the watershed 93rd Academy Awards

• Travon Free, who won best live action film short with Martin Desmond Roe for Two Distant Strangers, quoted James Baldwin, urging viewers not to be ‘indifferent’
• Mia Neal had a message of hope for women of all races when she received the award for make-up and hairstyling in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom