Filmmaker and activist Socheata Poeuv‘s documentary New Year Baby, about her family’s experience surviving the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, has been picked up by ITVS and will air as part of their Global Voices series. Click here to learn more about the film and when and where you can watch it: http://worldcompass.org/episodes/new-year-baby
In this guest blog post for NJ.com, Muslim Chaplain James Yee discussed how important free speech is – even for Derek Fenton, who publicly burned a Quran at the World Trade Center site on the anniversary of 9/11: “Like so many I know, I am profoundly grateful for the right that allows me to openly …
Read this nice review of author and activist Loung Ung‘s recent visit to Hawken School in Ohio: http://74.123.154.53/podium/default.aspx?t=204&tn=Cambodian+Survivor+Shares+Tales+of+Horror+and+Hope&nid=598505&ptid=119507&sdb=False&pf=pgt&mode=0&vcm=False
Loung Ung, author, activist, genocide survivor and cyclist, is profiled in Issue 25 of Urban Velo: “Riding with the Dragon” – where she discusses biking in Cambodia and why she still does it today in Cleveland, OH: http://www.urbanvelo.org/issue25/p80-81.html
Two new videos have come in of Dr. Terrence Roberts, one of the Little Rock Nine, at University of North Carolina Pembroke: one hour long lecture, and one very interesting fifteen minute interview where he talks about why he volunteered to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, AR in 1957, what his parents thought …
We’re happy to announce that the third episode of Phil Plait’s Bad Universe will air tomorrow, April 19th at 11:00AM EST on the Discover Channel. Check your local listings. Here is Phil’s blog announcement with more info: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/04/18/bad-universe-episode-3-airs-tuesday-april-19/
Socheata Poeuv, director of the documentary New Year Baby and founder of the non-profit Khmer Legacies talks with students at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College about ‘What Does it Take to Heal?’: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/socheata-poeuv/?post_type=speaker-videos
Gabriel Bol Deng, Lost Boy of Sudan, recently visited Suffern Middle School in Suffern, NY to share his experiences of survival from the Sudanese Civil War. It garnered a nice slideshow in the Journal News.
Lost Boy of Sudan Garang Mayoul talks about his experiences at Waubonsee Community College: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/rebuilding-hope/?post_type=speaker-videos
Two new videos for Dave Montgomery. One lecture on soil erosion and civilizations at Edmonds Community College, and one interview on how he got into the field and what he’s working on now: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/david-montgomery/?post_type=speaker-videos