Noah Berlatsky

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

For once, central character Andrew's flaws are tied up in the fact that he is—wait for it—fundamentally decent.

If you want America to relearn how to hate white Jews, the quickest way to do that is to associate them with black people.

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

This doesn't mean that the outcomes of domestic violence are always equal; men tend to be bigger and stronger than women, and therefore are more likely to cause serious harm, even in situations where violence is reciprocal. Still, the fact that women are frequently perpetrators of violence in domestic situations substantially undermines the typical story of domestic abuse—and helps to show just how harmful that story is.

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

Genre boundaries are conscious of race—and, in the case of rock, conscious of gender too.

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

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

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