Cover Stories: Diversity, Illegal Immigration & Race Articles
January 1st, 2010
Written by Ann Tierney Prochnow in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
Bonne Annee! Shana Tova! Manigong Bagong Taon! Feliz Año Nuevo! Happy New Year!For thousands of years, people have celebrated the New Year around the world, but the festivities do not always take place on January 1. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, typically takes place in the month of September, while February 14 marks Chinese New Year in 2010. Iranians celebrate New Year, or Noruz, on March...
December 24th, 2009
Written by Tim Glanfield in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
The air carries a thick scent of roasting meat as children scramble around the tree to see what Santa left for them. The adults look back on the passing of another year and forward to the changes of the next.It's Christmas - a time for love and peace on earth, charity, celebration and togetherness.Across the world, every culture celebrates in a different way - some have festivals based on...
November 30th, 2009
Written by Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa in Cover Stories with 1 Comment
When Jolanda Williams looks in a mirror, she sees a warm peach complexion framed in dark silky hair, high cheekbones beneath almond eyes, and full lips that slip into an easy, radiant smile. It is a face that could belong almost anywhere: Mexico, India, Indonesia. Yet Williams, daughter of a white German mother and a black American father, has spent the better part of her 35 years coming to terms...
September 29th, 2009
Written by Alonzo Weston in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
Allan Thomas remembers June 8, 1967 —the day Israeli air and sea forces mistakenly attacked the USS Liberty, a U.S. Naval intelligence ship, just outside Egypt. Thomas was a Navy seaman who worked on a rescue ship in the area. He drew the assignment of retrieving and identifying the bodies.“I remember the captain told us over the P.A. system, ‘We don’t know how we [are] going to come out [of]...
August 11th, 2009
Written by Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa in Cover Stories with 0 Comments
O, mankind! We created you… and made you intonations and tribes that you may know each other, not that you may despise each other. – The QuranIt is a subject that ignites such passions that it is rarely broached in polite company. Some Americans would rather not acknowledge its presence. Others cannot resist it as a way to lord over those they see as less than themselves. Still others cannot...
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