In 1960s Mississippi, Southern society girl Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the Black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families. Only Aibileen (Viola Davis)...
They combined this with increasing the work of Eunice Rivers, who now offered car rides to patients on their ‘treatment’ days, gave out hot meals and even told families that in the unlikely case the worst happened, the programme would cover funeral expenses. It was a masterclass in spin;...
Like the Carnegies, I know there are other families in Canada whose lives and family trees contain branches that blaze a trail through the national landscape. Without hesitation, I can think of families like the Nurses, the Grizzles, the Crowleys and the Newbys. So, what’s in a name?
In 2003, she co-founded Keep a Child Alive, a nonprofit organization aimed at providing treatment, love, and support to families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. With her diverse talents and relentless dedication, Alicia Keys has firmly established herself as one of the leading ...
In the 1960s and 1970s, of course, there was the highly divisive and ultimately counterproductive furor over the "Moynihan Report" and its depiction of black families as dysfunctional, matriarchal, and caught in a "tangle of pathology." And more recently we have seen an equally caustic set ...
Feasibility of Using a Nationally Representative Telephone Survey to Monitor Multiple Sclerosis Prevalence in the United States Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic neurologic disease of young adults, placing a heavy burden on patients, families, and the he... S Buka,M ...
morale of the men at the front. They were reinforced by thousands of leaflets like those dropped over the French U-boat bases in 1943. These emphasized the high casualty rates in a captioned picture strip that stressed the awful suffering caused to seamen’s widows and families in the ...
“What we believe is the largest wage and hour class settlement in California history will change lives for Disney families and their communities,” said Randy Renick, an attorney representing the workers in the class-action suit. Back pay owed to workers from Jan. 1, 2019, when the wage la...
The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861. In: Iacovetta, F., Draper, P. and Ventresca, R. ed. A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s. Toronto: ...
Children play on a Harlem street in the 1920's. Harlem became a destination for African American families of all backgrounds. The Cotton Club, at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, was one of the most successful nightlife venues of the Harlem Renaissance. Here it is seen in 1927. ...