Newsletters #3

Thank God our Creative Director (Shanica) is back on the job...she forgot about us for a minute, but it's ok we still luv your crazy antics.
So here's the scoop below, ENJOY!!

EVERYONE GETCHA FIRST AID KITS OUT!

The Help was a great book. Based in the 1960, it was about three ordinary women who take one extraordinary step for womankind. Skeeter a young white Journalist, Aibeleen & Minny - black maids to wealthy white families in Mississippi. As different from one another as can be, these women came together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
Now I know that everyone knows that I don't like slavery books, but this book turned out to be a really good read. I have to classify it as a slavery book because it truely reminded me of that time. The book is about women taking back what's theirs……..Dignity! We all know that slavery was a degrading thing to go through, and the hardships after that time was nothing more than a daily struggle of racism, not to mention sexism. I personally could have never lived back then because they would have literally hung a sistah. But this book showed a way for all the black women to come together as one to humiliate the hell outta their slave masters/employers.

Skeeter returned home from college to persue a career in journalism. Only to find out that although she was the right color, she wasn't the right sex. The only opportunity available for a writer who happend to be a woman, was writing a House Cleaning column for the city paper. Of course she was not content in this position, but it ended up being a starting point for her to put together the stories of every black maid that she could think of. Aibileen, a black maid and the catalyst for gathering every maid she knew to tell these stories. The stories alone would be the ones' to put this book on the map. Including the most critical story from her best friend Minny. From the shitty pie to the demons that haunted Aibileen when her son died, these stories would end up being put in a book discussed on a nationwide TV show. This is something they never thought would happen and they didn't know what would happened if they were to ever find out it was all the maids from Mississippi that told the stories about their bosses. This was definitely a good read and it was intriguing from start to finish. Was it that way for u 2?

Character Identification
Sharletha - Aibileen
Remy - Skeeter
Shanica - Minny
Marrena - Yule Mae

Look for it in theatres next year!!