As painful as it is to read about racial prejudice, the stories of Aibileen, Minny and Miss Skeeter in “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett, reverberate with an uncomfortable truth and a sense of hope.

Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel, The Help (Amy Einhorn Books, 2009), is ambitious. It’s historical fiction, for starters. And it deals with race relations. And it’s 444 pages long. But, despite this ...

Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel, The Help (Amy Einhorn Books, 2009), is ambitious. It’s historical fiction. It deals with race relations. It’s 444 pages long. But, despite this daunting setup, Stockett ...

Life in the 1960s, in Jackson, Mississippi was difficult for most people. Being a black maid, raising children not your own, was made even more difficult by the times. In The Help, by Kathryn Stockett ...

First-time novelist Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Help’ uses compelling narrative to illustrate the power of truth telling. The Help, set in Mississippi, 1962, will likely remind readers of Harper Lee’s ...

Oprah must be kicking herself. Her show went off the air before she could devote a very special episode to the female-centered civil rights drama “The Help.” Performances by Viola Davis, Octavia ...

Years ago, Ed Yoder, then a columnist for The Washington Post, wrote a column about black women, "maids," who worked in the homes of white families in the South and the influence they had on the lives ...