Noah Berlatsky

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

According to an Academy Awards voter, the right sort of people, with the right sort of education and connections, can't be racist.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

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."

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

Writing can be hard and uncomfortable and precarious—but it's hard and uncomfortable and precarious in the way that any job can be.

A new Facebook post calls into question cover depictions of hyper-sexualized men and women.

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

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?

Action movies don't usually bother much with romance. The trailer for The Transporter: Refueled certainly doesn't. The hero is cool — sexy women, plural, throw themselves at him, or at least stand near him and things blow up; there are fights and revenge and high production values. Romance is, at best, a secondary concern.