Common Ties That Bind
Exploring common values, living conditions, arts & cultural traditions and practices that cross racial, ethnic, generational, religious, and geographic boundaries; and destinations that offer opportunities to explore and enjoy the diversity and commonalities of the world’s peoples, places, and cultures.
March 18th, 2010
Written by Mary Castillo in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
It is axiomatic that whatever nags or plagues the majority community, often weakens and is far worse in the African-American community.
Unfortunately, like the disparate morbidity and mortality statistics of many other diseases and health conditions among white and black Americans, HIV/AIDS follows this pattern.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that African-Americans represent...
February 25th, 2010
Written by Manny Otiko in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
It’s been celebrated in movies such as “Something Different,” and “Save the Last Dance” and is fashionable among Hollywood celebrities, but have interracial relationships been truly accepted by Americans?Interracial relationships are also prevalent among other ethnic groups. More than 20 percent of unmarried Latino women live with white men. Approximately, 39.7 percent of unmarried Asian women...
January 26th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
Above the crowded, hardwood dance floor, hips gyrate, shoulders shimmy, feet hop and slide to a spicy Latin beat. A long, mirrored wall reflects sparks of childlike excitement in dancing eyes.
It feels like Saturday night at a Salsa hot spot, but it's actually Wednesday morning at the YMCA in Bonita Springs, Florida. In stretch pants, T-shirt, and glittering belly dance belt, Angeli Chin-Franz...
December 19th, 2009
Written by Wendy A. Hoke in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
There are times when poetry speaks to us in ways that other forms of writing simply cannot. We turn to it to find solace in pain, meaning in tragedy, voice in the absence of justice and verbal expression for love. Poetry is the barest of expression, its language stripped of artifice. Every word chosen and spoken is essential, but more importantly, it has the ability to start a conversation with...
December 1st, 2009
Written by Soumitro Sen in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
The word “Sikhism” may not ring a bell in the minds of most Americans and few may know it’s an East Indian religion. However, for Snatam Kaur, Sikhism is a way of life and singing Sikh devotional songs is a vocation.
As an American Sikh, Kaur is an exception, as most followers of Sikhism are of East Indian origin. Nevertheless, with years of training, Kaur has evolved into a prolific...
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