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“Interesting stuff, I guess. What we need is more voice for Michael's innocence. Enough with the materialistic stuff. People yearn for truth ; real truth amidst all the medialoidism....”
“I think that the President has passed opportunities to to address issues affecting the Black community both directly and figuratively. Though we are American's, black people identify with the pain...”
“I've been thinking a lot about Reed's article. I was curious about the movie when I read an interview with the director in the New York Times last fall, but...”
“I can't imagine the devastation and suffering the people of Haiti are going through. Of course we have to help, and the world needs to step up too. I read...”
“Hola Tamika, I've spent many hours meditating on the rocks at Isla Negra. In fact my documentary on Neruda just received a grant from Latino Public Broadcasting, so hopefully it...”
“Government takeover of the health care system is the worse thing that can happen. Remember the story of how the government incorrectly gave out $98 million to government contractors? Look...”
“Jeremy, "time has told" that Susan Boyle's 15 minutes are clearly not up and will not be for some time. Best of luck to you and that your 15 minutes...”
“Tiger should have come out and faced it like a man....”
“If handing out condoms reduces disease and teen pregnancy then it is good, if it does not then it is bad that’s really all there is to it. Anyone with...”
“You may have heard that Ralph Lauren issued a retouched image of one of their models, Filippa Hamilton, which was unusually distorted and harmful. After receiving public criticism and expressing...”
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A portrait of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet hangs in the presidential palace in downtown Santiago.
Photos by Danielle Helm.
Author Stephanie Covington Armstrong signs copies of her book "Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat."
Our Web team got tips on "green" living by visiting the Los Angeles Eco-Home, a bungalow that for 21 years has served as a model of "ecological living in an urban environment." While the home is retrofitted to include solar hot water heating, photovoltaic panels and a drought-tolerant landscape, the Eco-Home founder highlighted simple changes that everyone from homeowners to apartment dwellers can make.
About 8,000 people with little or no health insurance waited in long lines in Los Angeles to receive free healthcare. The event was created by Remote Area Medical (RAM), a nonprofit that began in 1985 to bring free health services to the world's inaccessible areas. Today, more than 60% of RAM's work serves rural America.
Check out video from our Web team's visit to RAM's recent event. Also make sure to catch Tavis' interview with Stan Brock this Friday, August 21.
Or watch the web exclusive video on YouTube.
There is a small community of L.A. residents who have redesigned their lives to adhere to standards of low-impact living in food production, waste reduction, water and energy use, as well as education, transit and housing. Our Web team visited the Los Angeles Eco-Village to find out how they make it happen. Check out the video from our visit.
I think it's worth taking a moment to consider the fact that if there had been no Naomi Sims, there would be no Iman, no Alek Wek, no Naomi Campbell, no Tyra!
The fashion and women's magazine industries might have continued to skip over African American women, particularly dark-skinned African American women (yes; I said it) to model their clothes and grace their covers.
As the first Black model to appear on the cover of Ladies' Home Journal in 1968, Sims made the fashion industry take notice ...
“Do you ever feel that on the racism front, our nation simultaneously takes one step forward and two steps back?”
It's summer 2009. On the one hand, the United States has its first African American president and confirmation hearings are underway for a woman who will likely be the Supreme Court's first Latina justice.
On the other hand, racism (and the perception of racism) is alive and busy as ever. For example:
1) A young Ghanaian man and former college soccer star sits in a California state prison serving a six-year sentence for ...
If you watch Gov. Sarah Palin's press conference announcing her resignation as Alaska's governor about 18 months shy of the end of her first term, you will find that a) she rambles, b) her reasons for leaving are typical occurences for the latter half of a governor's term (even a governor who might eventually run for president) and c) she really rambles.
Here's what she said.
Reason 1: Ongoing ethics complaints
"Political operatives descended on Alaska last August, digging for dirt. The ethics law I championed became their weapon of choice. ...
Because I absolutely hate the fact that my house is a cell phone dead zone, I bought a new gadget that you've probably never heard of. It's called a femtocell and it hit the U.S. market in 2008.
The technology is designed to boost reception in homes and businesses and uses a box that looks like a Wi-Fi router to do that. It's like having a mini-cell tower in your home, because the box uses your broadband network and a GPS connection instead of the nearest cell phone tower.
The base ...
Tiana, Disney's first African American princess, who will be in theaters this December in The Princess and the Frog, is already stirring up a bit of controversy.
Critics are not happy that Disney, which has a record of racial faux-pas, chose a prince who is not also African American, selected New Orleans as the animated film's setting and includes some characters who might be racially insensitive, including a witch doctor, characters who play the banjo and shuffle when they dance, ...
As California's Proposition 8 fight continues, I thought it might be worth it to talk to a couple of experts about a question that I've run across while covering the Prop. 8 challenge: Is the same-sex marriage battle a civil rights struggle reminiscent of the 1960s civil rights movement?
Hear what a civil rights law expert and sociology professor have to say about it.
Also check out our same-sex marriage special features page “The Right to Marry.”
Like the rest of the nation, I have regularly celebrated the birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. for years. But it wasn't until I took a class with Manning Marable during my college days at Columbia that I also began to mark the birthday of Malcolm X - a much more controversial civil rights leader.
Although his birthday is not a national holiday and he might not be discussed as much as King in the mainstream media, Malcolm X's life, speeches and legacy are ...
If 'Black Art' does exist, then what is it? If 'Black Art' doesn't exist, then can there be a Black art exhibit or a Black art gallery?
The Laband Art Gallery at L.A.'s Loyola Marymount University invited a group of LMU students to discuss these and other questions by holding a symposium at the gallery's exhibit called "Gallery 32 and Its Circle." The exhibit honored a late 1960s-era art gallery with art pieces from mostly African American artists.
I attended the symposium to look at the art work and to get the students' take on the ...
Check out this video from the end of my trip to Dubai. To everyone I met in the UAE, who let me visit and take up way too much of their time, I say Shukran.
I obviously got carried away taking pictures during my recent trip to Dubai. Also check out my slide shows from Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and my evening trek to a makeshift Bedouin camp in the desert.
I stumbled upon the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) because the Dubai-based artists who run the initiative had an art piece in the "That Fleeting Moment" exhibit that I visited.
The LAGI artists explained how, if it works, each land art sculpture would have the potential to power up to 50,000 UAE homes. Check out the video from my conversation with them.
Also, check out video from my visit to the Dubai Women's College, slide shows from my trip to Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and my desert trek, as ...
Published March 19, 2010 1:18 PM
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