Oprah Book Club Author Ewem Akpan's New Fiction
A female passenger starts to scream in the molue, or you-beat-me-I-beat-you bus, in front of my battered red Volkswagen Beetle, introducing another ri...
A female passenger starts to scream in the molue, or you-beat-me-I-beat-you bus, in front of my battered red Volkswagen Beetle, introducing another ri...
The Lakeland Ledger | Cary McMullen | Posted 12.21.2009 | Books
Harris, pastor of Living Hope Community Church in Lakeland, has been out of the Klan for more than 30 years now. He has been speaking out against the ...
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.
John Amaya | Posted 12.16.2009 | Home
In the case of the fatal beating of Luis Ramirez, a federal grand jury recently delivered indictments that included the commission of a hate crime, obstruction of justice, official misconduct, and extortion.
AP | ERIK SCHELZIG | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their wea...
Posted 12.10.2009 | Home
The Zoe Pound Gang, a Miami hip hop gang with links to Haiti, is gaining plenty of attention today due to a special documentary on the group that aire...
AP | CHELSEA J. CARTER | Posted 12.10.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Iraq's Western-backed government – facing intense pressure to address security lapses after suicide bombings killed 127 people i...
Thomas Scheff | Posted 12.09.2009 | Living
Why do spree shooters kill? Why did Nidal Malik Hasan and other spree shooters murder their victims? One approach would concern emotions involving recursive loops of shame and anger.
DJ Jaffe | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
Maurice Clemmons is now dead. But treatment for his illness would have been better for all. We have to stop denying violence and start treating it.
elephant journal | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
While on the mat, I thought of all the difficulties that life had dealt this man, my ex-husband, my abuser....
Norm Stamper | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics
When campaigning for John McCain Lieberman actually declared Sarah Palin fit to be president. Yet, when it comes to the Fort Hood slayings, Joe Lieberman is spot on.
Robert Ellis Gordon | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Just as the health care debate has served as a springboard for those who prey upon fear, Obama must do the same, but for a vastly different purpose: to speak about the nature of the discourse and plant a seed of peace.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
While the problem of unemployment in the Arab world seems insurmountable, there are a number of initiatives being implemented and proffered in the region to begin to put a dent in the problem.
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Noura Erakat | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
Rather than condemn Israel's act of aggression, Congress added its name to a pungent piece of manipulative delusion: that Israel's onslaught of Gaza constituted an act of self-defense.
Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
Two-time Academy Award-winning British actress Emma Thompson is focusing her attention on the issue of human trafficking of women and young girls by c...
Posted 11.08.2009 | Los Angeles
A 15-year-old girl who was raped, robbed and beaten by multiple attackers outside of her high school homecoming dance was found by police after 18-yea...
Brian Center | Posted 11.06.2009 | Impact
I looked at the faces in the small room and heard the voices and realized that this is war. This is why people kill each other. It was fear.
Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Conservatives will ask why during an economic recession should we spend even more money in Liberia. My answer: for the security of Liberia and the entire West African region.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment
The Saw franchise may be more efficient in logging a body count, but The House of the Devil is the kind of film that reminds you how cool it is to settle back and just let the dread soak in.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.
AP / Huffington Post | Posted 11.01.2009 | Home
RICHMOND, Calif. -- Police believe as many as a dozen people watched a 15-year-old girl get beaten and gang-raped outside her high school homecoming d...
Parvez Ahmed | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
Muslims who make up over twenty percent of the population in Kolkata have become its invisible minority, increasingly squeezed out of the public square in Kolkata and beyond.
AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
WASHINGTON — Nicole Kidman conceded Wednesday that Hollywood has probably contributed to violence against women by portraying them as weak sex o...
Tracy Siska | Posted 10.12.2009 | Chicago
Who in their right mind thought it would be a good educational decision to move black kids from 95% black North Lawndale to Little Village High School in a 95% Latino community? Racial violence was predictable if not guaranteed.
The New Yorker | Ewem Akpan | Posted 12.28.2009 | Books