Thanks. The article is interesting, and I applaud the author’s willingness to take on such a contentious issue. But discussing rape accusations in American without parsing the long and painful history of lynching renders the whole thing abstract. False accusation of rape was a cudgel by which one race beat down…

I don’t think “it’s of the time it was written” completely excuses this book. It came out after James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son,” after Emmett Till, after the Montgomery bus boycott. The idea of black resistance and agency was not unheard of. It’s interesting to me that Harper Lee, who was a sophisticated…

Johnetta Elzie is a great choice for an interview subject. She and the other activists who emerged from Ferguson represent a new brand of leadership and a breath of fresh air. She’s creative, inclusive, uncompromising. Thanks for this.

Perfect. I plan to spend the day eating popcorn and reading Black Twitter.

Yes. And a cheery “Congratulations, Taraji,” might have been a classy way to go.

I agree. It’s hard to know who will commit suicide, etc., but the circumstances are really fishy. Assaulting a public service? This small woman is going to take on a cop? No. So she was in jail for three days for changing lanes without signaling, basically. The whole thing stinks. The feds need to step in with another…

Deserved! And in another category, Key but not Peele? How does that work?

Some (not enough, but some) nominations for women in non-acting categories, too: Jill Soloway, Dee Rees, Amy Schumer (writing & directing), Lisa Cholodenko, Jane Anderson. It’s a start.

Yup. Should read “which she barely survived and which killed her 78-year-old husband.”

“Every time she speaks, she is probably lying.” We need TV journalists like this.

One of those videos involves the governor promising his daughter a puppy in exchange for her forbearance during the campaign. Does Jindal realize he’s tearing a tactic right out of the Obama playbook?

Phil Klay, explained.

(Raising hand meekly) I confess, I saw Jersey Boys. I can’t help it. I can’t pass up a musical. But I wish I had bypassed this one.

Irene Cara, man.

Seems like every director takes a shot at a musical sooner or later. Remember Scorsese’s New York, New York? Coppola’s One From the Heart? Milos Forman’s Hair? Altman’s Popeye? Most of them don’t work out, but I’m glad they keep trying.

Funny to think Anne Bancroft was only 36 when she played the creepily old Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. Dustin Hoffman was 30.

Well, in his next movie he plays opposite Felicity Jones, 32.

The author says her mother prided herself on her lack of domestic skills. That doesn’t mean she mocked women who have them. Where do you see mockery here?

Surely you can understand the difference between doing these tasks by choice and doing them involuntarily?

Just want to echo: great piece. More like this please. Maybe fewer 500 Days of Kristin and more like this?