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The candid French novelist is torn between sympathy and hurt in this quietly heartbreaking memoir about his mother’s troubled early adulthood

The French literary star talks about growing up in poverty and his mother’s escape from the abusive marriage that haunted his childhood

ATLANTA — Duluth resident and stand-up comic Mo'Nique has settled a 2019 discrimination lawsuit with Netflix where she argued she was given a low-ball offer by the streaming service in 2017 in part because she is a Black woman.

It is nearly two years since Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were killed in a London park and pictures of their bodies were shared by the officers who were supposed to be guarding them. Their mother talks about taking on the Met, and how she carries on in the face…