After winning Golden Globe, BAFTA and SAG and Critics’ Choice Awards for her role in The Help, Octavia Spencer won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar…

“The Help” could be this year’s Oscar sleeper. Viola Davis  is probably going to win her first Best Actres Oscar  this year. Like the Academy, SAG really likes Streep — indeed, she has scored more nominations from both groups than any other woman in history (eight from SAG, 17 from the Academy) and won two awards […]

“The Help” was the sleeper  hit if the summer of 2011. If you missed this movie  here is your chance to see it.   I am sure that it will definitely receive  for a Best Picture nod at the Oscars. A late-summer box-office hit ($168 million) and a sure-fire crowd-pleaser, it also features a standout performance […]

Growing up black in the South, I understood a few things: Watermelon was meant to be eaten with salt; fish was eaten every Friday night; and race was not discussed, especially not in public. Well, at least that was how it went in my house. As a child, I was very interested in history, particularly […]

On the afternoon of Aug. 13, three days after the release of the much anticipated movie The Help, W.I.L.D. (Women’s Institute of Leadership Development) Women hosted a discussion for nearly 100 women of faith. From various backgrounds and members of several Charlotte-area churches, the women gathered at Forest Hill Church on Park Road for a […]