Noah Berlatsky

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

Katniss is the voice of conscience and morality in the film, and in The Hunger Games series as a whole. In the just released last film in the series, she tries repeatedly to avoid unnecessary deaths. She insists that refugees from an attacked base be given an escape route, for example, and exposes herself in an effort to help them.

It's worth questioning some of our assumptions about adolescent inferiority.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

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 founder of the brilliant fyeahblackrockmusic Tumblr talks racial politics, Kelis, and . . . the Doobie Brothers?

If my wife and son had thought bubbles above their heads, like in the comics, you would be able to read them saying, "dog dog dog dog dog dog dog."

There's a good argument to be made that the earliest, and the best, rockabilly performers were women. Slicked-back, hiccuping, hopped up cool.

The first graphic novel to win a Caldeott gives children the chance to be adults, and adults the chance to be kids.

In the U.S., anti-Semitism is universally condemned. This means that, effectively, anti-Semitism doesn't exist.