Blog Entries Posted on January 24 2013 :

The Clemente Effect, a new ESPN documentary on the life of the late Puerto Rican baseball right fielder, is slated to debut in the sports network soon. In the documentary, directed by Mario Diaz, Roberto Clemente's "powerful life is examined." In 1960, Clemente became the first Hispanic player to win a World Series in a starter position. He also received the MVP award in 1966, along with the World Series MVP Award in 1971. Hailed as a hero in his hometown of Puerto Rico, Clemente became a sports icon at the international level. Clemente is also known for his charity work in Latin America; he died in a plane crash while attempting to deliver aid to...

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Prominent Researcher Joins the University

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Here's your first full trailer for the Angela Bassett, Mary J. Blige, Lifetime original movie Betty & Coretta. It was about 10 days ago that a behind-the-scenes sneak peak was released, which we posted. This is the first real trailer for the tele-film, which will premiere on Saturday, February 2 at 8/7c, and will center on the relationship between Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King - specifically, it'll follow how they continued on as single mothers, after their husbands were assassinated - their husbands being Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. As already reported, Mary J. Blige plays Betty...

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"As for what shapes the forecast for Eritrea in particular, it winds up toward the middle of the global pack because it's a mixed bag," says Ulfelder.

"On the one hand, it's a poor country that's internationally isolated, both of which are associated with increased risk of coup attempts. On the other hand, it's a very repressive dictatorship, and regimes like that are historically no more coup-prone than fully democratic ones, other things being equal. The regime's success at quashing dissent is also reflected in the absence of any prior coup attempts, another thing that pulls Eritrea's forecast down."

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Ken Burns already tackled Jack Johnson in a feature documentary - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the 3 1/2-hour 2005 film; Burns will return to the life of Johnson, but this time via a scripted 4 to 6-part mini-series for HBO, says Deadline. HBO has hired Beau Willimon (Ides of March) to pen the script, which will see Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman produce (via their Playtone Partners production company) along with Ken Burns, who will also direct the series, which will be based on Geoffrey C. Ward's book Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson - the same book that Burns based his 2005 PBS feature documentary...

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National Transportation Safety Board Chairperson Deborah A. P. Hersman briefs reporters on the NTSB's ongoing investigative work being done on the malfunctioning JAL Boeing 787 lithium ion battery at their labs in Washington, January 24, 2013. REUTERS/Jo...

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How is Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert going to pick up his players after their Capital One Cup exit to Bradford?

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Defence challenges witness's claims about murder accused BY ANDREW SEYMOUR, OTTAWA CITIZENOTTAWA -- A "great deal" of testimony from a witness who said her dead friend feared an ex-boyfriend now on trial for murder wasn't the truth, a defence l...

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Ethiopian child on the mend after Sutter surgery for deadly brain tumor By Dan Hill Kalkidan Wondemu Sirbaro, a 7-year-old girl from Gurage, a village in southern Ethiopia, had a checkup at the Sutter Medical Center neuroscience facility in downtow...

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Tear gas was fired into Tahrir Square by the police Thursday night, as Egypt braced for a day of protests to mark the second anniversary of the 2011 revolution.

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For months, the two Sudans have been facing off along their contested border. In September, they agreed to establish a buffer zone, 10 km north and south of the agreed upon center line, to separate their armed forces and reduce tension in the region. In the past week, both the governments of Sudan and South Sudan finally reported that their troops have withdrawn on their respective sides of the center line and will withdraw from the Safe Demilitarized Border Zone, or SDBZ.

South Sudan pledged on January 17 that its withdrawal south of the SDBZ would be complete by February 4, 2013. The following day, the Sudanese government pledged to withdraw its forces north of the SDBZ, but did not share its projected timeline. Although delayed, the recent and mutual commitment to withdraw forces is an ...

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I blogged previously that the Islamist occupation in northern Mali is inherently unstable. It includes Tuaregs as well as "Arabs," who regard...

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Aaron Kohn's African Lookbook interview with David Goldblatt covers a wide swath of subject matter--from childhood experiences, how he began working as a photographer after his father's death, and why he was never cut out to be a "political" photographer (because "I am a coward," he says, and because "I'm interested in the underbelly" of [...]

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