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Anika Noni Rose’s Patience With Cicely Tyson Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
The Emmys began last night with a skit featuring disgraced former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, a clear reference to Melissa McCarthy’s brilliant impersonation of him on Saturday Night Live, and an act in which the consequencelessness of whiteness has never been better exemplified. Whatever hope there is that the people connected with Donald…


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