The Help Controversy
The movie The Help is really raking it in at the box office. It opened a few weeks ago and so far, has made almost $87 million in the U.S. It is still in No. 1 place at the box office but it has not been without controversy. In case you don’t know, The Help is about two African American maids working for white families in Jackson, Mississippi in the early ‘60s and a white woman who decides to write about the social injustice of the time. It is based on the book written in 2009 by Kathryn Stockett. It … Continue reading