The 'When They See Us' director looks to Isabel Wilkerson's landmark book to challenge the tools used to divide humans, drawing connections between India, Nazi Germany and American inequality. In ...

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...

Anand Teltumbde’s The Caste Con Census brings to the fore a long history of disconnect between claims on the one hand and ...

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.

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Ava DuVernay is an accomplished dramatic director who knows how to craft a human story around a crusading idea without letting one overwhelm the other. She proved that with 2014’s Selma, her Martin ...

With an ensemble also including Jon Bernthal and Niecy Nash-Betts, the 'Selma' director tackles the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's sweeping theory of American racism. By Lovia ...

Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, made several costly miscalculations in this year’s general election. He overestimated his own popularity. He underestimated the extent of economic angst, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least it should be by now) that America is a country founded upon — as well as cursed, colonized, and fertilized by — a bedrock of racism that continues ...

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...