“The Help” Author Sued By Black Maid
Uh oh: the author of The Help, the wildly popular novel about black housemaids and nannies in the 1960′s racist, segregated South that everyone has read and loved, is getting sued! Kathryn Stockett has...
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett was one of my favorite books of 2010 — and millions of other readers agree. This summer, “The Help” hits the big screen, starring Emma Stone as Skeeter, a white recent...
View ArticleBeth Ditto On Southern Womanhood
“I think that we have parents that we have to answer to [in the South]. My mother would die if she found out that I treated someone rudely. … When I was down there, I was wearing a dress, I got it at...
View ArticleBrad Paisley & LL Cool J’s Song “Accidental Racist” Is All Kinds Of WTF
The South. It’s a beautiful but haunted kind of place, filled with the vestiges of the Civil War, slavery and romantic longing for a “different way of life.” You may ask, “What does this Jewish girl...
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