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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Wins Peabody for CNN’s GPS series
(press release) Thirty-eight recipients of the 71st Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2011, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the UGA campus.
“The
range
of
the
Peabody
Awards’
search
for
excellence
has
never
been
wider
or
deeper
than
this
year,”
said
Horace
Newcomb,
director
of
the
Peabody
Awards.
“Local
news
organizations
covered
stories
with
international
import
as
well
as
those
significant
within
their
communities.
Documentaries
and
news
reports
on
issues
missed
or
overlooked
by
big
organizations
were
available
on
websites.
Comedians
engaged
in
political
actions.
Radio
proved
again
the
power
of
the
individual
human
voice.
Drama
took
on
issues
of
power
and
control.
Images
of
disaster
appeared
alongside
images
of
hope
and
freedom.”
The latest Peabody recipients reflect variety in content, genre and sources of origination.
Congratulations to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria who garnered a Peabody for CNN’s GPS series highlighting Zakaria’s commentary and analysis regarding Iran’s nuclear ambitions as well as a special report, Fixing the American Dream, addressing problems with the U.S. educational system.
David Henry Hwang Set as Signature Theatre’s Residency One Playwright for the 2012-2013 Season
Signature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is proud to announce that Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will be the Residency One Playwright for the 2012-2013 season at the company’s new home, The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between Dyer and 10th Avenues). Residency One is Signature’s core one-year playwright-in-residence program that produces a series of plays from the body of work of one accomplished writer. Hwang succeeds Athol Fugard, whose MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA! and THE TRAIN DRIVER will be presented in the coming months, as Signature’s Residency One playwright. Titles, dates and directors for the David Henry Hwang series will be announced at a later date.
Signature Theatre’s Founding Artistic Director James Houghton said, “I have been looking forward to a season of David Henry Hwang’s work for a long time, and I am thrilled that he will be Signature’s 2012-2013 Residency One Playwright. For over thirty years, David’s plays have tackled critical issues of identity, legacy, and the global community with incredible insight and great humor. He is also a fierce supporter of emerging playwrights and a vital leader in the New York theatre community. We are honored to have David join the company and to produce three of his extraordinary plays.”
BD Wong, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Brandon Victor Dixon, Tom Viola at “Passing It On: An Evening of Mentorship to Benefit Rosie’s Theater Kids”
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Tony award-winning actor BD Wong hosted “Passing It On: An Evening of Mentorship to Benefit Rosie’s Theater Kids,” at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater in New York.
Currently appearing on NBC’s critically acclaimed drama “Awake,” Wong collaborated with Wayne Barker (Broadway composer of PETER AND THE STARCATCHERS) to write a mini-musical based upon King Matt the First, Janusz Korczak’s beloved Polish children’s story. He co-wrote, directed, choreographed and performed with 11 handpicked kids from the “Rosie’s Theater Kids” program.
Army Courts-Martial in Connection with U.S. Private Danny Chen Moved to US
Update April 11, 2012
The U.S. military announced today that the trials of the eight U.S. soldiers implicated in the death of 19 year old U.S. Army Private Danny Chen have been moved to U.S. soil. The trials will be held at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, if senior military officials decide courts-martial are warranted. Fort Bragg's commanders have accepted jurisdiction in the case.
A miliary investigator has recommended courts-martial for all of the soldiers.
"We are relieved and pleased," said Elizabeth R. OuYang, president of the New York chapter of civil rights group Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), which has been lobbying the military for a change in jurisdiction to the United States, rather than in Afghanistan.
Chen's relatives say he was subjugated to brutal hazing before he apparently committed suicide Oct. 3, 2011. Investigators are reviewing allegations that Chen was subjected to weeks of physical abuse, humilation and racial slurs by members of his unit in Afghanistan before he apparently killed himself.
A nationwide grass-roots campaign has raised awareness of Private Danny Chen's case.
California Governor Signs Bill Requiring Accurate Collection of Information on AAPIs
LOS ANGELES –
APALC News Release:
October 10, 2011
Bill co-sponsored by APALC requires the disaggregation of data on Asian ethnic groups in key state departments.
Legislation requiring key state agencies to collect and post information about job programs participation and employment and housing discrimination faced by Asian and Pacific Islander ethnicities was signed by Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday.
Assembly
Bill
(AB)
1088,
introduced
by
Assemblymember
Mike
Eng
(D-Monterey
Park)
and
co-sponsored
by
the
Asian
Pacific
American
Legal
Center
(APALC),
a
member
of
Asian
American
Center
for
Advancing
Justice;
Asian
Americans
for
Civil
Rights
and
Equality
(AACRE);
and
Asian
and
Pacific
Islanders
California
Action
Network
(APIsCAN),
requires
two
key
state
agencies
to
include
the
full
spectrum
of
Asian
American
(AA),
as
well
as
Native
Hawaiian
and
Other
Pacific
Islander
(NHOPI)
ethnicities
in
their
data
collection,
consistent
with
those
groups
reported
by
the
U.S.
Census.
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