EDITORIAL
'The Help' and racial fault lines"The Help," a movie about the conflicts between black house servants and their upper class female employers in segregated Mississippi, has become an unexpected battleground. Some black critics of the cinematic portrayal of the interracial domestic controversy have been quite outspoken. However, it is difficult to discern the real nature of their protest. More » |
OPINION
How 'The Help' depicts race relationsSo many viewers were not even born during the time depicted in "The Help"; hence, they have no idea what life was like in the Jim Crow-era South. The median age of Americans is 37.2 years. The average-age American was born in 1974 and the average-age African American in 1980. More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Patrick: 'Keep the faith'Irene may have been downgraded to a "tropical storm," but she hit us harder than you might think. She had the broadest impact on our electric services of any weather event ever, and there are towns in western Massachusetts where the runoff was so fierce it washed away roads, cutting off access entirely. Acres of crops were destroyed just before the harvest. More » |
