“Mean Girls” star Avantika Vandanapu has become the subject of online backlash after her rumored casting in a Disney remake. Vandanapu, known mononymously as Avantika, was rumored to be cast as Rapunzel in an alleged live-action adaptation of the ...

Actress Avantika Vandanapu has been at the center of a barrage of misguided and racist social media posts in recent days, reactions to unfounded rumors that she was cast as Rapunzel in a live-action Disney remake “Tangled.” “Unpopular opinion ...

What’s happened to heroines in animated features? For 60 years of the Walt Disney Company’s domination of the format, girls were the focal characters who could be expected to come of age, triumph over adversity and, in general, man up. But the current ...