Shonda Rhimes Fires Back At The Critic Who Called Her An "Angry Black Woman"

BuzzFeed - “I’m going to need to put down the internet and go dance this one out. Because ish is getting real.” Shonda Rhimes on June 11, in Los Angeles. Getty Images for Women In Film / MaxMara Charley Gallay The first sentence of the New York Times television critic Alessandra Stanley's piece on the new ABC series How to Get Away With Murder, titled "Wrought in Their Creator's Image," reads: "When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called 'How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.'" The article centers on the evolution of black female characters on television, but specifically those on Rhimes' series — Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) on Grey's Anatomy, Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) on Scandal, and the latest addition of Annalise Keating, played by Viola Davis, on How to Get Away With Murder. Stanley praises Rhimes for doing "more to reset the image of African-American women on television than anyone since Oprah Winfrey"