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Laverne Cox in "Disclosure" (Netflix)

Hollywood's impact on transgender lives

Melanie McFarland
Roy Cohn and Donald Trump (Sonia Moskowitz/HBO)

Humanizing Roy Cohn in new HBO doc

Andrew O'Hehir
Zuri Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle, "Sherman's Showcase" (IFC)

Gallows humor well-timed for Juneteenth

Melanie McFarland
Taste the Nation (Hulu)

Hulu's political "Taste the Nation"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Hank Azaria in "Brockmire" (IFC)

Hank Azaria on baseball & pandemics

Dean Obeidallah
Neon Girls by Jennifer Worley (Harper Perennial)

Workplace lessons from the strip club

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Danny Masterson (Getty/Anna Webber)

Danny Masterson charged with rape

Gene Maddaus - Variety
Michael Cimino and George Sear, "Love, Victor" (Hulu)

"Love, Victor" is a likable gay romance

Melanie McFarland
Coded Bias (AFI DOCS)

The "Coded Bias" of facial recognition

Gary M. Kramer
On The Record, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and The Rape of Recy Taylor (HBO/Warner Media/Augusta Films/Harpo Films/Salon)

Black Women's Lives Matter in 5 films

Melanie McFarland
Hank Willis Thomas’ 800-pound sculpture "All Power to All People" (Monument Lab)

What should replace Confederate statues?

Ashlie D. Stevens
"9to5: The Story of a Movement" (AFI Docs)

The fight against workplace sexism

Gary M. Kramer
Matthew McConaughey on 'Uncomfortable conversations with a black man", Trevor Noah from the Social Distancing Daily Show, and the 75 year old man in Buffalo who was knocked down by police (Salon/Comedy Central/Emmanuel Acho/Twitter/@WBFO)

Why are we finally paying attention?

Melanie McFarland
Death in her Hands by Otessa Moshfeigh, Self Care by Leigh Stein, Block Seventeen by Kimiko Guthrie, You Exist too Much by Zaina Arafat, and The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Salon/Riverhead Books/Catapult/Blackstone Publishing/Penguin)

To read: "The Vanishing Half" and more

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
Moechella in Washington, D.C. (Shaughn Cooper)

The power and politics of Go-Go music

Priscilla Ward
English singer-songwriter Paul McCartney rehearsing with his band Wings before their British Tour, 7th April 1973. (Jack Kay/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

McCartney's "Band on the Run" triumph

Kenneth Womack
Avatar The Last Airbender (Nickelodeon)

"Avatar" and the fight against fascism

Melanie McFarland
Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" (Netflix)

Spike Lee triumphs with "Da 5 Bloods"

Melanie McFarland
Pete Davidson & Judd Apatow behind the scenes of "The King of Staten Island" (Universal)

Judd Apatow: "Pete is an open book"

D. Watkins
Friends, from left, Sheba Sahlemariam, from Los Angeles, Vicky Van, from San Gabriel, Raven Ramos, from Culver City and Jasmine chow, from San Gabriel, joined nearly 1,000 people gathered to protest the death of George Floyd and in support of Black Lives Matter, in downtown, Los Angeles, CA, on Friday, June 5, 2020. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Asian Americans, stop being anti-Black

Hanh Nguyen
Raychelle Burks, Ph.D. in "Picture a Scientist" (Duy Linh Tu)

New doc examines sexism in STEM fields

Gary M. Kramer
Ben Schwartz in "Space Force" (Netflix)

Ben Schwartz on "Space Force," pandemic

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Daniel Yuens (Patrick McCarthy/NBCUniversal)

"Lost Kids" probes teen camp & cult ties

Ashlie D. Stevens

Watch "Attack the Block" not "Star Wars"

Melanie McFarland
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