Topic: Culture & Society

The Wrecking views their music as a means to end child sex trafficking and other crimes against children. Their CD, "A New Abolition," releases August 19.

Gearing up for their national debut CD in late August, The Wrecking is releasing the music video, "In Your Eyes," a remake of the Peter Gabriel hit. The video was produced in conjunction with Love 146, a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of child sex trafficking and exploitation.

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The Wrecking.

With an African-American expected to accept the Democratic nomination for president Aug. 28, many voters are examining their attitudes toward one of the nation’s most perplexing and pervasive issues – race. At the University of Mississippi, the examination has been going on since 1962.

With an African-American expected to accept the Democratic nomination for president Aug. 28, many voters are examining their attitudes toward one of the nation’s most perplexing and pervasive issues – race. At the University of Mississippi, the examination has been going on since 1962.

It's summertime and self-help obsessed celebs are looking for good beach reads. Stars like Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Oprah, Nicole Kidman, Fergie, and Meg Ryan have all been spotted reading the self-help tome by Denise Coates to attract their desires. The only question is: What more could these stars want?

Maybe stars are more like us than we realize. When we're feeling stuck in some area of our lives, many of us look for answers by perusing the self-help section of our local Barnes and Nobles. With the latest trend of celebrities buying and even endorsing self-improvement literature, regular folks who read about how to spice up their love lives or manifest more money may just spot a famous face pouring through the same self improvement books as them.

Film offers scorching look at the way our government contributes to and profits from disasters both here and abroad

Academy Award Winner Richard Dreyfuss is set to narrate the heavily anticipated documentary America Betrayed, from Eclipse Entertainment and filmmaker Leslie Cardé. The film, slated for release in late summer of 2008, places the spotlight front and center on the specific ways our government contributes to and profits from disasters both here and abroad…from the way it shields itself from blame when all roads point to their culpability, to the friends in high places in corporate America who continue to benefit from the very disasters that leave the rest of us reeling.

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Richard Dreyfuss

Unfortunately, a numerology chart for the date 8-8-08, the day of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games, reveals that it's an unfavorable date. The astrology chart of the opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games also suggests an abundance of ill-fated energy.

The Chinese place a lot of importance on the number eight, as they associate it with prosperity. The Beijing Olympic Games are scheduled to start on 8-8-2008, at 08:08:08 PM China Standard Time in Beijing. Although all those eights might appear to be a good sign, beneath the surface lurks a darker reality, according to Scott Petullo and Stephen Petullo of MysticTwins.com.

Salaam Press publishes "Illegal Citizens: Queer Lives in the Muslim World" by Afdhere Jama. The book follows 33 people in 22 countries.

Following thirty-three people in twenty-two countries, Afdhere Jama paints a complicated picture in Illegal Citizens; Queer Lives in the Muslim World. "I set out to tell the stories of people suffering everywhere," says Jama, who is the editor of Huriyah, a queer Muslim magazine. "Instead, I was confronted with diverse lives including happy ones - sometimes in places I never imagined."

Many of us have long realized that the cartoon series "The Simpsons" is, ironically, the most true-to-life show on television. After nearly two decades, the academics are finally getting wise.

The cartoon depictions of educators in The Simpsons could serve as professional development tools for real teachers.

A gemstone information website has developed an online test to determine which gemstone is best for a particular person.

Shopgemstones.com has just developed an innovative online test to determine which gemstone is best for a person. People can take a 10 question, multiple choice test, answering questions about their health, astrological sign, personality traits, birth month, and life values.

What impresses us the most about this quick look at Facebook is that the writer, a resident of Stockholm, is just as concerned about the CIA as we, even though he's well outside the "official" grasp of the U.S. government. Perhaps we're not so paranoid after all.

What is Facebook? Is Facebook an idealistic social project allowing people to become friends worldwide or an American company making money?

Post traumatic stress disorder and other issues involving disabled American veterans have become the focus of a new film entitled, "Who Will Stand." There are many films about the war in Iraq, but a small team of Las Vegas filmmakers decided that the soldiers would be better served by addressing the issues they deal with after they return home.

More American soldiers kill themselves than are killed by the enemy, and many others suffer the effects of post traumatic stress disorder. As many as eighteen soldiers a day are committing suicide and most of those soldiers kill themselves after they return home. Their divorce rate has tripled since the beginning of the war and substance abuse among veterans is four times the national average. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg according to Who Will Stand producer/director Phil Valentine.

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10 year old Christian Golsynski bears the horrors of war in this photo as he accepts the folded American flag after the loss of his father Marc in Iraq.