A new study from the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Media Impact Project revealed that Jewish representation on-screen still falls flat, leaning into detrimental stereotypes and highlighting only ...
As a Native American student, I have seen the profound influence of the media on shaping people’s thoughts about other cultures. Films and documentaries are either helpful in creating mutual ...
“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power.” — Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) Each February, we ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Whether it’s stand-up comedy specials or a dramedy series, when Muslim American Mo Amer sets out to create, he writes what he knows. The comedian, writer and actor of Palestinian ...
The CW Network's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" finished its final season last spring. Throughout its four seasons, the serie s— a hybrid musical/romantic comedy that plays with and satirizes the tropes of ...
This story was originally published by ArtsATL. If I asked you to list five major plays featuring one or more major characters with autism, could you do it? Perhaps “The Curious Incident of the Dog in ...
For years, plus size viewers were left watching characters who looked nothing like them. If we did show up, our bodies were the joke, the cautionary tale, or the “before” shot. Times are changing, and ...