From BBC News: “The 7.0-magnitude quake, Haiti’s worst in two centuries, struck south of Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday. Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told US network CNN he believed more than 100,000 people had died. The Red Cross says up to three million people are affected. The quake, which struck about 15km (10 miles) south-west of Port-au-Prince, [...]
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World AIDS Day
December 1st is the 21st World AIDS Day. On this day, individuals and organizations around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic. Dramatic progress has been made against this disease. But, more needs to be done to prevent new HIV infections through education, vaccines and other measures, and to care [...]
Waterlife
Waterlife is a film telling the epic story of the Great Lakes which provide the Earth with 20% of its surface fresh water and economic and recreational sustenance to 35 million people. That precious resource is under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, evaporation and profound apathy. Along the way, Waterlife shows us the Lakes [...]
A Brief Look at the Multiethnic Jewish World
I don’t typically wear religion on my sleeve, but a non-Jewish friend recently reacted to my religious choice with a (quite good) performance of scenes from Fiddler on the Roof and the best Yiddish accent I’ve heard since moving to Louisville. He wasn’t mocking me, but I had to school my theatrical, Black brother that [...]
Knock, Knock
I could easily describe the relationship with my father as strained. But there were moments when all was right with him and me and the world. He’s been gone for 12 years now. Back then, I thought I’d surely step out from underneath the long cast of his shadow. In many ways he’d question and [...]
