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Food has always been important to the portly actor, who first drew national acclaim in the role of Detective Bunk Moreland on another HBO series, “The Wire,”and now plays the trombonist Antoine Batiste on “Treme,” which is filming episodes in New Orleans for broadcast next fall. … Read More
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Over the last decade the prevalence of HIV infection in the United States has reached new highs and now rivals the numbers we see in sub-Saharan Africa…….Read More
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By Daniel Fineren and Amena Bakr Article Reprint Iran said on Tuesday it would stop oil exports if pressure from Western sanctions got any tighter and that it had a “Plan B” contingency strategy to survive
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In a historic ruling, an international court convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity for supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for “blood diamonds.”…. Read More
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Statistics indicate that a lot of Americans don’t read at all Chris Hedges Article Submission We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with
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Controversial leader supports religion group William Tapscott Article reprint Simultaneously praising a white man (L. Ron Hubbard) and insulting the vast majority of white people (non-Scientologists), Louis Farrakhan recently praised Scientology for “civilizing” white people.
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Jarrod Horton Staff Writer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi the son of former Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi will have his trail in Libya instead of International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The difference may mean life or
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the embattled Illinois congressman who has been on medical leave from Capitol Hill for the last four months undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder, is now facing even more problems…. Read More
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