I empathize with Eddie Long’s accusers. In August, two of them, Spencer LaGrande and Jamal Parris, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the alleged wounds of what they call exploitation by the man they knew as “bishop” and “Daddy” are still fresh. “I’m fighting not to pull the trigger,” Parris said, days after receiving probation for…

Director Tate Taylor had everything he needed to make a more palatable adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s ahistorical novel, The Help — that is, for those of us who know our herstories. He had beautiful, gifted black actresses (chiefly, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Aunjanue Ellis and the incomparable Cicely Tyson) and pretty, young and not-so-young white…