Noah Berlatsky

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

With the death of Leonard Nimoy, it's a good moment to pay tribute to (and question) his most famous character.

Fifth Harmony is nobody's idea of a roots band.

To understand this debate, it's important to consider historical context.

Let's not ignore the fact that the original James Bonds wasn't just white. He was a white supremacist.

Iin a passionate Facebook thread last week, children's author Meg Rosoff rejected the idea that there are "too few books for marginalized young people," as librarian Edith Edi Campbell had suggested.

As a white woman, Swift can afford to celebrate carelessness. Beyoncé, though, knows that even her casualness has to be perfect.

Last year there was much excitement at the announcement that Lupita Nyong'o was going to play a major role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens — the first Black woman to star in the franchise.

The surface text of the film is that you can't trust some guys. The (barely) subtext is that you can't trust any guys.

Metal aggression isn't sexual, but existential. As a result, women in the genre are both rare and unexpectedly equal.