It's been seven months of uneasy silence since The Birth of a Nation's big breakout at Sundance: from writer/director/star Parker himself, from the media that closely covers him and surely knew this storm was brewing, and from the family of the young woman he was accused of ***ually assaulting in 1999 — who we've just learned took her own life in 2012.
They're all talking **w.*
Parker has **w given three interviews, beginning with Friday's meticulously negotiated blog post ack**wledging his acquittal 17 years ago and capped off by a written statement posted late Tuesday on Facebook. "These are my words ... I write to you all devastated," he writes, ever so careful to maintain his in**cence while striving "[**t to] ig**re the pain she endured." Read more...