How to Get Away With Murder

On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Law Enforcement Unequipped to Handle White Terrorism

Law enforcement with their backs turned to the camera while people protest Trump's inauguration

by Bitch HQ

November 5, 2018 at 3:00am

American law enforcement failed to take white nationalist violence seriously. Now they don’t know how to stop it.

DeWanda Wise as Nola and Ilfenesh Hadera as Opal on She's Gotta Have It

Nova, Nola, and Annalise: Queer Black Women and the Arc of Representation

by Jordan Taliha McDonald

January 3, 2018 at 9:12am

Nola, Nova, and Annalise are the queer-coded villains of their own stories. Read more »

Oliver and Jack kiss on How to Get Away With Murder

“How to Get Away with Murder” Brings an HIV-Positive Character to Primetime

by s.e. smith

September 30, 2015 at 2:26pm

Shonda Rhimes’s dramatic show includes an important story-arc that challenges public conceptions of who gets HIV. Read more »

Viola Davis, a dark-skinned Black woman, plays Annalise Keating on How to Get Away with Murder

“How to Get Away with Murder” Gives Us a Female Antihero We Can Root for

by Kelsey Wallace

September 26, 2014 at 12:44pm

As a Black woman, Annalise Keating packs just as potent a combination of sex appeal and unlikability as Tony Soprano or Don Draper with the added bonus of not being a white dude. Read more »

Tony Goldwyn, a white man, kisses Kerry Washington, a Black woman, kiss in the Oval Office on Scandal

The Romantic Lessons of “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy”

by Carmen Cruz

September 24, 2014 at 11:23am

We don’t all need a man or partner to have a happily ever after. Read more »