This was an interesting list and I was especially glad to see an oldie but goodie mentioned. I remember it well because at the time I lived with my mom a single parent, seven blocks away from where Claudine was filmed. The movie did a lot to elevate the conversation about the incredible, arbitrarily unfair rules one had to deal with while on welfare. Like any true romance it was a little unbelievable but Carroll and Jones did it justice. Unfortunately in this day and age when alternative facts are touted as an actual “thing” by WH advisors seeing Ms. Moore’s inaccuracies in her review regarding the Moynihan Report were deeply troubling. First, the report was written in 1965 when he worked for President Johnson, a full nine years before the movie came out. It’s true that reaction to the report was divisive and particularly within the black community but it never suggested that blacks in poverty should be neglected benignly or otherwise. In fact it said quite the opposite and was trying to draw attention to the increasing rise in black single family homes and suggested that one parent families had always been a bigger problem economically for families and would be for the black community in the years to come. Blacks in the 60’s fresh off the embattled civil rights years took offense and thought incorrectly that Moynihan was blaming the victim but years later several black scholars validated that the report had been right in explaining a situation that would get worse before it got better. I wonder now how many people turned off by the report actually read it or whether they were reacting to something they read in the media about it just like Ms. Moore wrote. Lastly, Moynihan suggested “benign neglect” in 1970 in a memo he wrote to President Nixon in response to the harsh and ugly public discussions about race from all sides at the time, suggesting that the president dial down talk about race saying Americans needed “a period in which Negro progress” continued and “racial rhetoric” faded. The memo was leaked to the press probably by someone who didn’t like Moynihan because people are still lumping it and the report together then dragging him through the mud about it 40 years later, probably from some vague rudimentary memory of what they learned in college classes about it. However you feel about it or him when you look at history and present it as truth to others, it’s important to be factual. Especially now. Things are definitely messed up enough.