Sports & Entertainment

Brazillian actress Morena Baccarin writes, America may be the land of possibilities but she’ll never forget their roots.

While all views are tolerated in India’s democracy, those who generate hateful rhetoric tend to realize that their prejudices attract few supporters.

Often thought of as a youth movement or just plain vandalism, ‘Street Art’, ‘Graffiti Art’ or ‘Bombing’ is producing a vibrant, new visual language – not just with spray cans – that is successfully channeling the ideas and ethics of street art into something more personal to the artists.

“While having a famous dad might seem to offer some advantages for a rising music star, Ludvig knows the music industry is all about the struggle to remain successful.” Rose Hes

“While some might argue that testing survival abilities of the gamer who must get water for his refugee camp without being captured, mutilated or killed by the Janjaweed militia, trivializes a dire and desperate situation, Sawyer says the game allows people to understand a reality they otherwise wouldn’t.” Satya Patel

By Hunter Parrish, California – November 2006
             When I first read the pilot for “Weeds” I remember thinking that the screenwriters wrote a show about my hometown in Plano (a suburb of Dallas, Texas) and just changed the name to Agrestic.  Plano has the same pushy suburban parents and the same “ticky-tacky pink and blue” [...]

20 years after the debut of The Cosby Show, the dreams of many African American and Latino youth have come true. Yet for others who got ‘stuck at the bottom’ life is not remotely like Dr. Clifford Huxtable’s. Bill Cosby’s and Dr. Alvin Poussaint’s prescription to end modern day racism.

A 9/11 in 1857 offers up a kind of twilight zone of similarities to the events on 9/11 in 2001.

Descendants of the victims of 9/11 in 1857 are fighting back – fighting for their rights to retrieve their ancestors’ belongings from the Mormon Church.

By Yaffa Shira Fredrick, New Jersey – June 2007
 A 26 year old heiress to the Hilton fortune preempted news of the civil war between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, an incendiary debate over a Senate immigration bill, a surge of troops in Iraq and other domestic and global conflicts with her cover-story legal snafu-saga. 
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