She didn’t mean it, really. Meryl Streep DRA ’75 wrote an op-ed in The Huffington Post yesterday to set the record straight after the Berlin International Film Festival. At the festival, Streep — the leader of the jury — said, “We’re all Africans, really,” in defense of the all-white jury. “I was not minimizing difference, but emphasizing the invisible connection empathy enables,” Streep wrote in her column.

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