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What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans — professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Louise Erdrich, journalist Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, musician Yo-Yo Ma, director Mike Nichols, Her Majesty Queen Noor, television host/heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. Source: PBS @ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 00:57 AM EDT, 16 May 2012 WASHINGTON, DC – David Morgan of Reuters UK first broke the news that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approval of an over-the-counter home HIV test kit. If approved, the test could further empower sexually active men and women, by [...]

Reblogged from myownstormypetrelwords: I’ve written about a few of these subjects before: the obscene incarceration rate in America http://www.myownstormypetrelwords.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/georgia-another-proud-moment/; Doug Blackmon’s ground-breaking book, Slavery by Another Name, in which he describes the forced labor system in place for more than a century after the end of the Civil War. http://www.myownstormypetrelwords.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/slavery-by-another-name/ But now, Michelle Alexander has [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 13:55 PM EDT, 1 May 2012 LOUISIANA, United States – On the second anniversary of the massive British Petroleum (BP) Gulf of Mexico oil spill, very little if any information has percolated through the American media about the ongoing impact of this disaster. As a consequence of the Gulf of [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 00:16 AM EDT, 17 April 2012 WASHINGTON, DC – The World Bank announced today that they selected President Barack Obama’s nominee Jim Yong Kim to serve as its president. Mr. Kim has been selected to replace the out-going president Mr. Robert B. Zoellick. Mr. Kim, a Korean-American doctor, will be [...]

Reblogged from Limeisbetter: The dog is blind and hiding in the corner of a dirty lot in South Los Angeles when these people rescue it. And a happy ending for everybody especially Fiona the dog. As we watched this story we couldn’t stop crying. Crying as if someone very dear had suddenly died. Perhaps, it [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 13:15 PM EDT, 30 March 2012 “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out [...]

When the media reported on the attempted rape by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) it seemed strange that they referred to

The assignation of this descriptor to the rape victim in the 21st century was incongruous. A fact that must have been noticed as the media in subsequent coverage began to refer to her as a cleaning women. When I heard about the ‘chambermaid’ from Guinea who despite the shame this accusation could cause her, displayed uncommon courage in reporting the attempted rape, I was proud of her.

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 10:04 AM EDT, 26 March 2012 NEW DELHI, India – Three years ago, on 13 April 2009, Shri M. Hamid Ansari, the current Vice President of India, released a book titled, “Challenges and Strategy: Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy” authored by Ambassador Rajiv Sikri of the International Institute for Strategic Studies [...]