National

VIA: Baltimore Sun With her best-supporting actress win at the Golden Globe Awards, Mo’Nique has emerged as the solid favorite to win the Oscar. And her tearful and heartfelt acceptance speech dispelled any notion that the actress didn’t much care for Hollywood awards. Mo’Nique earned the Golden Globe for playing Mary Jones, a monstrous, abusive […]

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VIA: USA Today.com The author known simply as Sapphire titled her acclaimed, controversial 1996 novel, Push, for a simple reason: Her narrator, an illiterate and obese 16-year-old girl, is urged to do a lot of pushing. When Precious Jones confesses to a teacher in a Harlem alternative school that she can’t read — that “the […]

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VIA: Entertainment Weekly WARNING: SPOILER ALERT Part of the great power of movies is that they can take us perilously close to the life of someone we might otherwise feel perilously far from. The title character of “Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire” is a hushed, damaged, morbidly obese 16-year-old African-American girl from […]