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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: 18:19 PM EDT, 10 May 2012 KATHMANDU, Nepal – Wednesday, 8 May 2012, was a day of great disruption and equal measure of sorrow for the residents of the shanty town at UN Park in the Thapathali area in Kathmandu. Most of the make-shift neighborhood encompassed an area 400-metre long, [...]

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: 22:05 PM EDT, 30 April 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya – In recent months, across Africa, Christian sects have been under attack from extremist. On Sunday, 29 April 2012, a church in Ngara was bombed leaving one person confirmed dead and 16 others seriously injured. Although the US embassy warned of an [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:55 PM EDT, 26 April 2012 THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Today, Charles Taylor, 64, former Liberian President and accused warlord was convicted by The Special Court for Sierra Leone, in The Hague, the Netherlands. He was found guilty of 11 counts of war crimes, including murder, rape, and sexual slavery. [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:23 PM EDT, 19 April 2012 NEW DEHLI, India – Following close on the heels of North Korea’s failed rocket launch earlier this week, the Indian government successfully launched the Agni-V from India’s east coast. According to other reports, Agni (means “fire” in Hindi and Sanskrit), a fitting term for [...]

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 DAWN.COM: The joint Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) in Islamabad called for an immediate halt to drone strikes in FATA. – Photo by AP WASHINGTON: The United States has indicated that the issue of drone strikes may also come up for discussion in future talks with Pakistan, although a State Department official [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 22:19 PM EDT, 13 April 2012 PYONGYANG, North Korea – Yesterday, amid the fanfare of ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Korea’s founder and “eternal president” Kim Il-sung, his grandson, Kim Jong-un suffered a humiliating set-back when the rocket that was to herald his military might [...]