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Open Thread: 200,000 58 Comments

The number of people that came to watch Obama speak before the biggest crowd he ever had; 200,000 in berlin. The next biggest crowd was when he spoke in Oregon and 75,000 showed up.

Bernos On TV 63 Comments

Our first TV interview ever. On Medill News Washington came when we had our monthly meeting and interviewed us. Watch video below Three young immigrants make a fashion statement by Alysia Patterson – Jul 17, 2008 WASHINGTON — In the world of African affairs, Ethiopia and Eritrea are historically unfriendly neighbors. But in the fashion [...]

Inspired: Big Giver 56 Comments

Watch Larry King Live on Thursday! I watched the final episode of Oprah’s Big Give, a show about charity and giving back last Sunday. And I was inspired; I was thinking about issues that people were having around them. Sorry to be ambiguous, but I am talking about the state of mind; depression, lack of [...]

Patriotism, a blanket for white resentment 17 Comments

What MLK would say to JW? Most of you have heard the recent controversy of the so labeled racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who according to the mainstream media made some incendiary remarks that are construed as racist and unpatriotic. Context I for one didn’t see anything erroneous with the snippets taken out of context. First, [...]

Transcend the divide 606 Comments

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, [...]