Fanartists have long made a point of racebending the Harry Potter cast, updating the predominantly white cast of the books. Now, something similar has arrived on the streets of London, and it’s ...

A group of young black activists have reimagined the posters of famous movie and TV shows such as Titanic and Doctor Who. ... Harry Potter and Doctor Who by replacing white actors with black leads.

While it should be cause for celebration when actors get cool roles, for Black British actor Papaa Essiedu and the recent news about his iconic new Harry Potter casting, it’s unfortunately ...

Source: Dave Benett / Getty. In today’s episode of Water Is Wet, The Sky Is Blue, And White People Are Exhaustingly Fragile, a Black man has been cast to portray Hogwarts Professor Severus Snape ...

When casting was announced Sunday for the upcoming West End play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, some fans were surprised that the character of Hermione Granger would be played by a black ...

The Harry Potter fandom, as expansive, invested, and out of its mind as it can be, has taken it upon itself to improve and change J.K. Rowling’s original works since the beginning. Rowling ...

When Yanna McIntosh takes the stage Sunday for opening night at the Curran theater in San Francisco, she becomes the eighth black actress to play Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Cursed ...

While it should be cause for celebration when actors get cool roles, for Black British actor Papaa Essiedu and the recent news about his iconic new Harry Potter casting, it’s unfortunately ...

As a rule, children’s books are problematically lacking in diversity, and so we do tend to assume that all characters are white by default. But nowhere in the Harry Potter series does J.K ...

The Harry Potter fandom already has a track record of abusing Black talent who take on parts originally imagined as white: During Noma Dumezweni’s two-year run as Hermione Granger in the West ...