Sanjar writes that many people in Afghanistan have turned to the faith of Jesus Christ in recent years. A few of them have done so openly, though most have kept their conversion secret....

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People in Fiji are slowly coming to grips with the fact the nation’s Rugby sevens team could not defend its World Cup title because it was beaten by upstart Kenya in the quarter-finals. In a very unconventional Rugby sevens World Cup played this year in Dubai, Wales emerged as the winner after the...

Tennessee is not joining either the new south or the 21st Century any time soon. Instead, it has a reserved a seat in a hell-bound handbasket. The latest indignity is that it seems to be "awash in jokes about Obama's race." The state already has a Republican Party that made Barack Obama's ethnicity ...

When mixed with rice, chana Punjabi, an Indian chickpea stew, is a soulful meal whose charms are hard to resist....

Running on the treadmill, it's useful to dangle an image carrot in your brain: something you can run towards, something to look forward to, a reward for all your hard work. And last week, for me, that was definitely a chicken burrito. I was craving one, hardcore. The problem is that where we live in...

You simply must see these images. It’s a pictorial of “life” in the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. As in many African countries, long-running civil wars between enemy tribes take an almost unbelievable human toll. The photos in this pictorial show what a truly miserabl...

This is a guest post by Renee. Hello everyone, this is Renee from Womanist Musings. Last month was the first edition of the WOC and Ally blog carnival. I started this is an effort to bring attention to the great work that WOC and allies are doing to deal with the various ways in which race interacts...

NPR blogger John Ridley maintains that GOP Chair Michael Steele should stop trying so hard to target the urban hip-hop generation and instead should take cues from President Barack Obama and Tennessee son, Harold Ford, Jr.: Steele's view seems oddly contrary to those people of color who are in fact ...

ZZ Packer has a thought-provoking article in the March 2009 edition of Wondertime magazine based on her experience as an African American mom of an interracial son. Here's an exerpt: The problem, as I see it, is that people still segregate their minds, even as the neighborhoods and social circles gr...