Wyclef Jean To Run for President of Haiti Grammy Award-Winning Musician and Humanitarian Makes Monumental Decision to Seek Political Office as Part of Ongoing Commitment to His Homeland’s Future PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Wyclef Jean, accompanied by his wife, Claudinette, daughter, Angelina, and other close family members, announced this evening that he will [...]
The Green Hornet is back…again. The venerable crime-fighter, who is older than both Superman and Batman, returns in 2011 with a new movie adaptation starring Seth Rogen (40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked-up) as the masked vigilante. This will be another in a series of adaptations of The Green Hornet, which started as a radio [...]
What happens when institutions and bureaucracies face off against the rapid influx of new technologies? In workplace cultures previously unaccustomed to accepting failure, such as government agencies, they are challenged to adjust perspectives and to allow the exploration of new technologies to follow an evolutionary course. This is the theme that Lovisa A. Williams, a [...]
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Last night at its annual awards dinner, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights presented Bono and Wyclef Jean with the organization’s 2009 Ripple of Hope Award. The award recognizes the bold leadership demonstrated by the two honorees on humanitarian issues. “As champions of justice, Bono and Wyclef have brought the national spotlight to human rights violations, empowered local activists, and transformed the lives of millions of people living in poverty from Port-Au-Prince to Darfur,” said Kerry Kennedy, founder of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. “Their efforts evoke the spirit of my father and we are honored to recognize them.”
The contest is a call to action for global citizens around the world to engage in cross-cultural community building and mutual understanding.
This is the missing textbook to the course that everyone is taking. In it Levinson not only enumerates the various classes of new new media and their relationships with older forms, such as newspaper to blog or television to YouTube, he also, through means of germane examples from the contemporary political and social sphere, illustrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of each of these new forms, making it an excellent primer for thoughtful engagement with the unfolding culture.
DULLES, Va., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At 11:19 a.m. (EST) GeoEye-1, the world’s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, collected an image over the United States Capitol and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken from 423 miles in space, is the world’s highest resolution, color satellite image of the Inaugural celebration. The [...]
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, a new 17-nation poll conducted for the BBC World Service finds widespread and growing optimism that his presidency will lead to improved relations between the United States and the rest of [...]
Historic event expected to continue upward trend in mobile television viewership evidenced during the 2008 presidential campaign EMERYVILLE, Calif., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ — MobiTV will bring a historic event to mobile devices, airing President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration live on Tuesday, January 20 beginning at 6 a.m. ET. MobiTV’s more than 5 million subscribers can tune [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ — The legendary Motown Records celebrates its 50th anniversary this year with a series of promotions and releases from Berry Gordy’s groundbreaking company and Universal Music Enterprises, including a series of online podcasts featuring rare and intimate conversations with the label’s legends, producers, songwriters and singers, which started on [...]
