The 'When They See Us' director looks to Isabel Wilkerson's landmark book to challenge the tools used to divide humans, drawing connections between India, Nazi Germany and American inequality. In ...

"Dhandoraa" movie review highlights its compelling anti-caste narrative, strong performances, and impactful transformation ...

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...

The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

This image released by Neon shows Jon Bernthal, left, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a scene from "Origin." (Atsushi Nishijima/Neon via AP) In her biopic “Selma” (2014), she depicted Martin Luther King ...

Kannanari’s The Menon Investigation uses the frame of a crime thriller to expose the deep entrenchment of caste and patriarchy in modern India. Through its flawed protagonist Vijay Menon, the novel ...

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.

In 1934, 17 German legal scholars gathered in Berlin to create the legal framework for an Aryan nation. They began by asking how the Americans had done it. The U.S. was centuries ahead, in terms of ...

To help combat caste-based discrimination, the Indian government saves spots at the best Indian universities for lower-caste students, who often take that opportunity and turn it into a tech job in ...

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Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...