Noel King appears in the following:
John Hope Franklin's literary legacy: A chronicle of the African-American experience
Monday, March 30, 2009
Last week, the U.S. lost a seminal historian of the African-American experience when John Hope Franklin passed away. His books, includingFrom Slavery to Freedom: A History of African ...
Is aid to Africa dead?
Friday, March 27, 2009
In the past fifty years, wealthy nations including the U.S. have given $1 trillion in aid to the continent of Africa. And yet, many African countries remain mired in poverty. So is it...
Investing in an interconnected world
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
By now, we’re all aware of the dark side of the world of finance. But there’s another side to finance that starts with a youthful impulse to save the world and evolves into something ...
No dose of sunshine: Growing number of Americans are Vitamin D deficient
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Nineteenth century England during the Industrial Revolution was a grim place. The air in the cities was thick with coal dust, forcing people indoors and huge numbers of children suffe...
The latest from March Madness
Monday, March 23, 2009
We've got the latest on March Madness from Gonzaga's game-winning layup to Missouri's freshman free-throw phenom. The Takeaway is joined by Will Leitch, Contributing Editor and Column...
Iranians and Iranian-Americans react to President Obama's video address
Monday, March 23, 2009
Last Friday, President Barack Obama addressed the people of Iran in a video message on Nowruz, the Persian New Year. In his appeal, Obama paid tribute to Iranian history and culture a...
Film shows life, death of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands
Friday, March 20, 2009
Back in 1981, in the United Kingdom, a group of men from the Irish Republican Army made headlines.
They were imprisoned in a British jail in Belfast, Ireland. They said they were...
Help, but no bailout, for auto suppliers
Friday, March 20, 2009
The U.S. Treasury will give five billion dollars to auto suppliers in a bid to inject liquidity into the struggling industry that employs 500,000 people in the U.S. But you can’t call...
Buddy can you spare a dime?: Microlending in America
Thursday, March 19, 2009
An ambitious social experiment will launch later this year that will test Americans’ ability and willingness not just to give, but to give to one another. Kiva, an online micro-lender...
A look at one square mile of the recession
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Takeaway is drilling down into the recession with our friend and contributor Paddy O’Connell, the host of BBC’s Broadcasting House. Paddy has been looking at how the recession is ...
There are two Americas and one of them has no bank account
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
There have been a lot of numbers thrown around during the ongoing banking crisis. But here's a few you might not believe: 28 million people in the United States have NO bank account w...
Chronicle of a Persian wedding
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Marjan Tehrani is an Iranian-American director/producer whose forthcoming documentary chronicles her brother Alex's wedding to Heather, an American woman from California. The couple t...
Washington D.C. HIV/AIDS infection rate hits 3%
Monday, March 16, 2009
A new report funded by the Center for Disease Control says the rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Washington D.C. has hit three percent. The rate is higher than in many West African countr...
The anniversary of the My Lai massacre
Monday, March 16, 2009
Today marks the anniversary of one of the most infamous events in U.S. military history. On this day in 1968, U.S. troops raped, tortured and murdered some 500 civilians at the Vietn...
Getting the most out of unemployment benefits
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
For the unemployed, The Takeaway continues to discuss how to dust yourself off and get back on your feet. With more than half a million jobs lost in the U.S. last month alone, those ...
Gandhi's belongings auctioned, but not without controversy
Friday, March 06, 2009
A dinner bowl, a pair of sandals and eyeglasses belonging to Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi fetched a price of $1.8 million in a New York auction. The auction was marred by...
China's stimulus plan aims at 8% economic growth
Friday, March 06, 2009
China's once-white-hot economic growth is cooling and an ambitious spending plan outlined yesterday has not convinced everyone that the nation can bounce back. Premier Wen Jiabao rece...
Producer's Notes: War along the border
Friday, March 06, 2009
In Mexico, the national army and federal police have gone to war with drug cartels. It's a conflict on a dizzying number of fronts that doesn't lend itself to easy explanation. Over t...
As Mexico's drug violence grows, a Texas border city looks nervously south
Thursday, March 05, 2009
All week, we’ve been taking a look at the U.S.-Mexico border, where violence has soared as Mexico’s army battles powerful drug cartels. Today, we turn to a place you may not have hear...
U.S. guns go south, Mexico's drug war comes north
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
This this week, we’ve been taking a look at Mexico’s drug war and the ripple effect being felt throughout the Southwest United States. Perhaps nowhere has this been felt more keenly t...
