Noah Berlatsky

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.

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.

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

A Ghostbusters with a female cast is a thorough violation of the spirit of the original. And that's a good thing.

Bus ads comparing Muslims to Hitler have been replaced with images of a superhero. And not just any superhero.

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

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

A recent controversy at the Calgary Expo suggests MRAs care more about making opponents look bad than they do about discrimination.

It's hard to deny the appeal of the masculine ideal, especially when embodied in Jude Law. And yet, it's also a depressing vision.

I am on my knees in 15-degree weather scrubbing poop from the sidewalk, and I have an epiphany of sorts—I do not want this dog.