‘Broken: Seeking Justice’ and ‘Canary’ show how journalists cover sexual assault — and podcasts’ potential for rebuilding trust.
The author, Wells’ great-granddaughter, aims to introduce the journalist, activist, and anti-lynching leader “to a younger generation and other people who might not be as familiar with her life.”
Since The Bachelor and The Bachelorette started in 2002 and 2003 respectively, only three leads have not been white.
Ahead of the Super Bowl, the new film offers a unique view of the devaluing of “women's work.”
Beneath the film's pastel coloring, neon signage, and pop music remixes lies a grim deconstruction of rape culture, and how those afflicted by it attempt to heal from it.
In an extraordinary year in the film industry, more women of color directors have made an impact than ever before.
The overall percentage of women working on top-grossing films has barely budged in over 20 years.
The FBomb talked with All Joking Aside star Raylene Harewood about the world of comedy, unconventional friendships, and the unique pain that comes with a rocky mother-daughter relationship.
Wade, an acclaimed editor, longtime activist and mentor, and the lead plaintiff in a historic sex discrimination lawsuit against the New York Times, died last week.
“Not Done” argues that while many seemed to believe the feminist project was complete, especially in the midst of Obama-era idealism about social progress in America, it was, as the title states, not done.
The new documentary spotlights women’s leadership in fighting the abuse of power in the use of computer technology.
Reporters-turned-media leaders have taken the reins on creating mentorship programs, setting off national conversations and launching independent platforms.
An interview with Anna Simone, a sociologist and a professor at the University of Roma Tre, about how women and men are scrutinized differently by the Italian media and public.
Media coverage of sexual violence in India, both domestically and globally, has ignored the vast majority of rapes. Obscured from public view by the media, those stories that don’t make national and global headlines face near-insurmountable hurdles to justice.
Zayed’s documentary, Lift Like a Girl, is set to make its U.S. premiere at the DOC NYC film festival on November 11.
Marvel Studios, one of the — if not the — most impressive names in the superheroine genre of entertainment, made headlines in recent years for their plans to add Ms. Marvel — a Pakistani-American, Muslim female superhero who first appeared in her own comic in 2014 — to their impressive roster of characters on screen.
In the new season of television, women from a variety of backgrounds, many using nontraditional career paths, have become first-time showrunners.
We are proud to introduce IDAR/E, a new online channel for us to take a deep dive into telling the U.S. story, in all of its truth; to highlight voices who are asking us to look beyond runaway headlines and trending hashtags.
Reporters are experiencing trauma from covering ICE’s treatment of immigrants. But who's talking about it?
Media coverage surrounding the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, observed this week, offers deeper and more nuanced understanding of the suffrage movement.
While Colombian media covers stories of sexualized violence in almost exploitative detail, it fails to highlight the victims’ ethnicity and race, thereby following a long tradition of obscuring who in the country is disproportionately victimized, as well as hiding the underlying structural causes that leave them most vulnerable.
“On the Record” focuses on empowering Black women in the #MeToo movement.
Chinese American filmmaker Cathy Yan recently became the first Asian American woman to direct an American superhero film with the newest installment in the DC Extended Universe, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
The film follows the young women as they travel from their small Pennsylvania town to Planned Parenthood in New York City so Autumn can have a surgical abortion.
These recent works by Black women historians challenge conventional narratives of the history of the United States.
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