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Our Ninth Great Grandfather Co-Founded Harvard University
New York, N.Y. Sir Thomas Dudley, the third Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and our ninth great-grandfather, signed the charter to establish Harvard on May 30, 1650…
74 Years After Hiroshima, Nagasaki: Authoritarianism, Hatred on Rise
New York, N.Y. The 26th Annual Interfaith Peace Ceremony to Commemorate the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings was held this week at the Japan Society in New York Cit…
Trump's Threatened Mass Deportation: What's So, What's Not
Washington, D.C. On Monday evening, President Trump tweeted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "will begin the process of removing the millions of illegal ali…
Supreme Court to Rule on Landmark Immigration Case
Washington D.C. Rosario Reyes says las pandillas , or gangs, always lingered in her neighborhood in El Salvador, but she became even more afraid after her brother-in-law…
Refugees are the Responsibility of the World – Peter Sutherland
New York, N.Y. Peter Sutherland is the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration. A strong advocate for the rights of mig…
Obamacare: U.S. Starts Selling Health Insurance to Uninsured
Washington, D.C. The U.S. has started offering to sell health insurance to millions of people who do not have coverage to help pay their medical bills. Early today, the f…
Fountain House Stands Up to Mental Illness
New York, N.Y. I thought I knew charity events, but I was not prepared for the magnitude of the recent Fountain House symposium and luncheon in the Grand Ballroom of The…
In China: On the World We Want to Build
By Trevor H. Paul. Tianjin, China. I came to China just over eight months ago to provide an American education experience for Chinese students in Tianjin. Since then I ha…
Felice Friedson & The Media Line Bring Balance to Issues in the Mideast
New York, N.Y. When Felice Friedson brought Palestinian journalists to Israel's parliament for the first time, the powerful chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and De…
Asia Society's President on Global Citizens Like Barack Obama
New York, N.Y. “As Americans, we have the unfortunate idea that we should and need to learn more about the world, but it’s not a priority. “We get to it when we can, whic…
Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11
New York, N.Y. One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in Florid…
Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council
New York, N.Y. Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half her lif…
Skype Interview with Josh Silverman on Haiti and Bettering Humanity
Luxembourg,LX . As you probably know, the multilingual, cross-platform Voice over Internet Protocol, instant messaging, and videoconferencing sensation known as Skype is…
Spectacular Sold-Out Premiere of Anti-Child Trafficking Film in NYC
New York, N.Y. Cambodian Parliament Member Mu Sochua received a standing ovation from the sold-out, standing room-only crowd at the red carpet world premier of REDLIGHT l…