“The Help”: Black housekeepers, white employers in '62 Mississippi

They took to Jackson, Mississippi to carry out their horrific plot; upon spotting Anderson, they hopped out their cars, beat him and screamed “White power!” and other hateful racist language. And then a group of the kids

When Hate Came Back To Mississippi: White Teens Charged In Fatal Hate Crime.

Mississippi has a dark history of racism. It was in the state's capital Jackson that Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers was murdered in 1963. On the morning of June 12, 1963, around 12:20 a.m., Medgar Evers arrived home

But The Help, set in 1962 Mississippi, is more complex and compassionate and nuanced than that. Like its characters, it has its faults. But overall, it is a movie of imaginative sympathy that gets into the skin of its characters, into their hearts,

Humane Society adopts out more than 200 in 24 hours.

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Mississippi bachelor out as 'Sweet Home Alabama' narrows field

Devin goes from Times Square one night to the Deep South Speedway in Alabama the next, exploring whether her heart lies in the big city lights or in her hometown. Three suitors are sent home heartbroken.

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He's done movies like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past while she made hits out of Sweet Home Alabama and Four Christmases. For the first time, Hollywood decided to bring the rom-com king and queen together on the big screen.

Devin Grissom, a student at the University of Alabama, is smart, beautiful and urbane, yet she's still a small-town girl who holds tight to her values. In the new CMT series, Sweet Home Alabama, she's looking for love among 20 men — half from the city

Devin Grissom, who is choosing from among an assortment of men on the CMT reality series “Sweet Home Alabama. Evidence of blue-state urbanity abounds, in fact, in the new New South, but you will find virtually none of it evoked on television depicting

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