Social Justice Majority-Black Casts Can Clearly Win at the Box Office. Now Will Hollywood Take Notice? A new study suggests more such movies could see commercial success if Hollywood threw more financial support behind them. Chinelo Nkechi Ikem
Social Justice How Bobby Kennedy Became a Progressive An interview with Dawn Porter, director of the new Netflix docu-series about RFK. Isaac Butler
Social Justice ‘We Have to Keep Fighting’: A Conversation With Anita Sarkeesian The new documentary Netizens offers an intimate look at how cyber harassment has affected the lives of three women. Jenni Miller
Social Justice Superhero Stories Aren’t Myths. They’re Anti-Myths. Unlike myths, superhero sagas suggest that justice is actually attainable. Noah Berlatsky
Social Justice How Hollywood Can Put More Women Behind the Camera The inclusion rider can help move Hollywood from conversation to action. Valentina Valentini
Social Justice When Sign Language Is a Superpower Emilio Insolera's new film uses the underground history of sign language as the premise for a superhero thriller. Coby McDonald
Social Justice ‘Love, Simon’ and the Power of Telling Your Own Story The glossy coming-of-age dramedy is about gay people writing their own lives—and it's empowering some people to come out. Brandon Tensley
Social Justice ‘Which Kids Do We Care About?’: A Conversation With Noor Tagouri The journalist and documentarian discusses her three-part documentary about sex work and human trafficking. Zaron Burnett III
Environment ‘The Future Is Happening Right Now’: An Interview With Jeff VanderMeer The fiction writer and environmental advocate on what we can do to protect a world we seem bent on destroying. John Maher
Social Justice Imagining a Fuller Spectrum of Autism on TV Someday, TV will give us autistic characters who aren't all awkward savants. In the meantime, we'll keep claiming characters for our own. Sarah Kurchak