By Talia Whyte
While most people were buying last minute gifts and preparing for the first major snow storm of the season during Christmas weekend, approximately 2,000 Somali young people from around the country gathered at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury at the biannual National Somali Youth Conference. The theme of the conference was “The Lost Somali Youth: The Tribulation of Family.”
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By Talia Whyte
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Oprah Winfrey is all over the news these days.
The television icon began the week receiving the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors for her contributions to the entertainment world. Then on Tuesday she headed off on a week-long trip to Australia with 300 members of her studio audience. And today she will appear in an interview with Barbara Walters, yet again defending herself against the ever-present rumor that she is involved in a lesbian relationship with her BFF Gayle King.
However, most people are interested in what Winfrey will do with her time when she ends her 25-year-old talk show next summer.
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By Talia Whyte
The Access Strategies Fund celebrated its tenth anniversary Nov. 10 with a gala at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. The organization’s mandate is to “provide non-partisan funding and technical assistance to 501 (c)(3) organizations to build the civic participation and power of people of color, diverse women, low-income people, immigrant communities, and other groups that have been denied power in Massachusetts communities.”
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By Talia Whyte
Literacy advocates gathered at the Nonprofit Center in Chinatown Nov. 6 to collect donated books, which will be redistributed to prisons around the country. The issue of literacy is a concern to communities of color because the vast majority of U.S. prisoners are black or Latino, and most statistics show that 40 percent of prisoners are functionally illiterate.
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