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How Maz Jobrani Made an Arab Laugh
Maziyar Jobrani, known as Maz, is an Iranian-American comedian born in Tehran, Iran, but moved to California when he was six years old. While he was born a Muslim, he describes himself as “Muslim-ish.” Jobrani was enrolled in a Ph.D. program at UCLA when he decided […]
Helen Oyeyemi: A New Light on Old Fairytales
Helen Oyeyemi — “Edgar Allan Poe’s Weirdest Daughter” Helen Oyeyemi’s writing has been called “haunted,” full of magic, horror and mysticism. She was fittingly described as “Edgar Allan Poe’s Weirdest Daughter” in a “France 24” magazine interview. She is a […]
VIDEO: TED Talks Global – Where is home?
According to the TED Global Blog, writer Pico Iyer is a man without a land.He is 100 percent Indian in blood and ancestry, but he was born and grew up in England; he has lived the last 48 years in the U.S., […]
Author Terry McMillian: Find Your Voice
Terry McMillan, author of Who Asked You, Waiting to Exhale, and other fiction and non-fiction books, spoke about her work to a rapt audience in Northern Colorado this February. As a black woman, McMillan writes stories based on African American characters, as […]
CNN, ESPN Columnist LZ Granderson tells all
LZ Granderson is a man of many talents: a father, a partner, a hard worker. Through all of these, and as an openly gay, black male, a he continually struggled with the fight against discrimination to find his own success. […]