In early Hollywood, black women were rarely portrayed as fully human individuals with emotional depth. Characters such as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) existed to serve…

Introduction On June 16 2019, Sam Levinson debuted his pilot episode of, “Euphoria”, on HBO. The show found major success among the teenage demographic as it is centered…

Spider-Man has long symbolized the idea that ordinary people can become heroes. The original Peter Parker, created in 1962 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, represented the white,…

When Chadwick Boseman played T’Challa in Marvel’s “Black Panther,” a lot of people thought it was a special and important moment. For the first time in big superhero…

Since his first appearance in the comic Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962), Spider-Man has become an American pop culture icon, symbolizing how the ordinary can become extraordinary. The character…

For decades, Hollywood has framed Black women through narrow and often damaging stereotypes – they are put in the background, made voiceless, or hypersexualized figures defined by their…