A Change Has Got To Come by Angela Flynn 12/08 angelaflynn80@msn.com I recently read Blue Windows by Barbara Wilson. Barbara was raised as a Christian Scientist. Christian Scientists are admonished to look out of only rose-colored windows because evil and sickness do not exist. Everything is perfection. Her mother ended up getting breast cancer and […]
Obama’s Chicago Roots May Prove Deeper Than Clinton’s
The grim blocks of Altgeld Gardens appear to have changed little since a young community activist called Barack Obama first decided to help tackle the dire social problems there in the 1980s. Rows of two-story brick buildings stretch over a snow-bound landscape, still driven by the poverty of Chicago’s overwhelmingly black South Side. Many buildings […]
HOSTAGE VICTIM AWAKES FROM COMA
By Roger J Duyong October 9, 2007, SIBU/SARAWAK, MALAYSIA: Three weeks after the 6 year-old hostage victim, who has endured the worst experience of his young life and went into a coma for several days, he is finally awake a few days ago. However, the boy – […]
East of Tragedy
The intimate portrait of a New Orleans East couple who are in the midst of rebuilding their home and recovering the pieces of a joyful life twenty months after the levees broke. Beatrice Haynes anxiously walked up to the single story home she and her husband Milton, both 48, have owned in New Orleans East […]