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Coming soon ... Spotlight On Hunger - a look at the issue and work being done to address the causes and effects in our lives. Each month, a current issue will be highlighted in 'Spotlight on...' Help us select the issues by voting. Members can add issues for the next poll in the comments field.

The Man in Room 306, a new off-Broadway Play about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

February 4, 2010 by ManinRoom306

When I first joined The Man in Room 306, Craig Alan Edwards (writer, performer, and co-producer) gave me a copy of a New Yorker article entitled “How David Beats Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell. As I read it, I realized that our struggle in bringing a politically important work of art to New York City not only mirrored David’s battle with Goliath, it also emulated the organizational and emotional challenges of Dr.

Tom Molloy

February 3, 2010 by TheAldrich

January 31 to June 13, 2010
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce the first museum survey of the work of Tom Molloy to be presented outside of his native Ireland. The exhibition of approximately twenty key works will feature sculptures, photographs, and drawings—including several large, multipart installations—created by the artist over the last decade.

Film Festival Spotlights Global Human Rights

January 29, 2010 by Pulitzer Center

Carmen Russell, for the Pulitzer Center
Perhaps more than anything else in our visual world, a good film has the power to engage and provoke. When it’s a documentary exploring human rights issues, it tends to hit even harder as we learn what is happening in the world and who it is happening to.

"The Unheard Truth - Poverty and Human Rights"

January 19, 2010 by Marcia G. Yerman

October 17th was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. However, a one-day a year acknowledgement doesn’t suffice. The Unheard Truth – Poverty and Human Rights, a book by Irene Khan, advocates for awareness about what she sees as the indisputable link between the title’s two compo

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