In Minneapolis, defense lawyers for Derek Chauvin, the former police officer on trial in the killing of George Floyd, emphasized Mr. Floyd’s drug use to conjure a stereotype that Dr. Hart calls “the crazed Negro drug fiend.”

Adult versions of Sesame Street have been a comedy staple for as long as there’s been a Sesame Street, and there’s not all that much new about making Count von Count a drug fiend or Prairie Dawn a sex worker.

Thus even her most famous character, Lily Bart, though a drug fiend, did not have her heart in her work.

Diggs has built a bankable career largely by playing successful black men, with not a gang member or drug fiend among them.

A long-time drug fiend, estranged from the outside world, Bergwall figured he’d be better off remaining in the clinic and started confessing to one murder after another.