Noah Berlatsky

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

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

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

Feminist dystopia at its finest. Joanna Russ imagines a world in which the elimination of gender hierarchy leads to freedom, strength, and power.

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.

english lit academic. wish fulfiller. thwarted world-changer.

"The look on Miley's face during Nicki Minaj's savage, expletive-laden rant says it all," Salon tweeted the day after the VMAs. Less than 140 characters, but still enough to link a black woman to a longstanding racial slur.

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."