I once heard Greg Alan-Williams speak to a group of students at a Park District event at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago.  Williams, a former Baywatch ‘water safety professional’, was in town to play Martin Luther King in The Meeting, a play directed by Chuck Smith about a mythical meeting between Dr. King […]

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ScienceDaily.com reported on April 2 that “Fear of Messing Up May Undermine Interracial Contact.” The report was about “a provocative new study from Northwestern University,” which “suggests that whites who are particularly worried about appearing racist seem to suffer from anxiety that instinctively may cause them to avoid interaction with blacks in the first place. […]

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MySpace today launched a Korean language version in Seoul, South Korea according to an Associated Press story by Hyung-Jin Kim that was featured in papers and websites around the world.
“MySpace will be the one and only platform that provides an opportunity for Korean users to easily meet friends around the globe, surpassing the hindrance of […]

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In doing a little search while writing about the scholarship needs at the Muriel Snowden High School in Boston, I found out Dr. Coulter is still the headmaster there, so I gave her a call. The school has evolved into the Muriel Snowden International School, and all students must complete four years of foreign language […]

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I was delighted to see Dawn Turner Trice’s call out in the Tribune on March 23 to start the conversation on race. “Let’s start a discussion. What question would you ask of a person of a different race to get to know him or her better?” I’m thinking this is fantastic, let’s go.
But then she […]

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According to an article by Yoko Kubota on washingtonpost.com this week, Tokyo’s Disney resort is possibly alienating visitors because Mickey, Goofy and the gang only speak Japanese. “The problem is the language,” said Chanida Towithelertkul, a Thai tourist who said her Chinese, English and Thai-speaking tour group was frustrated by the language barrier at the […]

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