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These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help" yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines. Last year's march, the first after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, drew hundreds of thousands of people, according to some estimates.Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared.

On Saturday, supporters of LGBTQ+ rights are set to march down one of Mexico City's main avenues to the central square to raise awareness of violence and discrimination against the community and push for equality. The process, which is free in Mexico City, comes after legal reform in 2014 allowing adults to change their gender on birth certificates and electoral cards if they identify as a different gender from the one assigned at birth. Transgender people face many hurdles when they cannot update legal documents such as ID cards to reflect their gender identity.

It took until last year, however, for the rest of the country to follow suit with Tamaulipas becoming the final state to do so in October.Īnother 131 people in the capital are set to complete administrative gender-change processes, the city government said. In 2009, Mexico City became the first jurisdiction in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage.