“Mr. Demme and Bo Goldman, his screenwriter, take Melvin’s tale at face value and present the movie as Melvin’s wildest dream,” Vincent Canby wrote in a review in The New York Times. “The comic catch is that this wild dream is essentially so prosaic. It’s also touched with pat...
Throughout the North, African Americans and their white allies were exhuberant. They packed churches and meeting halls and celebrated the news. In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only ...
“It’s like showing up at a Mexican restaurant in a sombrero,” said McDaniel, an expert on the political mobilization of black churches, “or a mom trying to use teenage slang.” McDaniel said the incident points to a larger problem among liberals: They often look clumsy, uncomfortable...
Heading into Buttigieg’s trip, it was an open question whether members of AME churches in South Carolina would forget the years of opposition to same-sex marriage by church leadership and consider supporting Buttigieg, who is gay. The church came out against same-sex marriage in 2004, and ch...