“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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John Boehner walks out of White House debt-ceiling talks. What now?

WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) — House Speaker John Boehner has broken off talks with President Barack Obama on getting a budget deal to avert a government default. The Ohio Republican says the president wants to

There was John Boehner, declaiming on the House floor, channeling Winston Churchill to express his party's opposition to raising taxes on the rich ("whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,

There was John Boehner, declaiming on the House floor, channeling Winston Churchill to express his party's opposition to raising taxes on the rich ("whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,

On an extraordinary night of political theater, President Obama railed on House Republicans for walking away from a debt-ceiling deal, only to see House Speaker John Boehner offer a rebuttal. Congress now seems eager to ignore the White House and do

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner broke off talks with President Barack Obama on Friday and said he will begin negotiations with Senate leaders aimed at meeting an August 2 deadline to avert an unprecedented US debt

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Phil Collin's beautiful daughter Lily as Brothers Grimm: Snow White

snowwhitelilycollins. Watch Phil Collins Live and Loose in Paris on Megavideo Videobb Novamov. Eight days later he has just become the first player to

Currently placed 5th out of 57 players remaining at the 2011 WSOP Main Event, the young US pro called Phil Collins will now be going all out to book himself a place at the final table, as the tournament begins to near its exciting conclusion.

snowwhitelilycollins. Watch Phil Collins Live and Loose in Paris on Megavideo Videobb Novamov. Eight days later he has just become the first player to

Phil Collins has completed a book about Texas history which could be in stores as early as next year. Collins, a avid collector of Alamo memorabilia, announced his retirement from music earlier this year because of health issues.

by Sarah Tetteh, Daily Mirror 23/07/2011 Phil Collins had to be helped out of an awards ceremony after being hit by crippling pains all over his body. The fragile pop legend was due to present a gong to Ringo Starr but the lingering effects of a spinal

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