Check out some of my favorite articles this week and let me know which one was your favorite!
Greetings were awkward, and there was fidgeting in chairs as strangers gathered around a long table in a gritty Midtown dive.
But as soon as steaming platters of barbecue chicken, candied yams and cornbread hit the table, conversation and laughter came easy.
FoodieMemphis participants share dishes served family style, which helps promote conversation, McRae says...
How Social Media Can Facilitate Difficult Conversations About Race
A recent, much-buzzed-about trend story by Associated Press reporter Jesse Washington started with a statistic — 72 percent of black children are born to unwed mothers — and incorporated a Twitter debate.
Washington, AP’s national writer on race and ethnicity, said he had been wanting to write about the statistic for a while. Then he learned that a newly created “No Wedding No Womb” hashtag (#NWNW) drew 110,000 users and vehement diatribes within weeks.
“I knew I had my hook,” he said in an e-mail interview....
Al Qaeda Looks to Make New 'Friends' -- on FacebookIf you're on Facebook, Al Qaeda wants to friend you.
Terrorist groups are using Facebook to share operational information and to target, recruit and radicalize members of the general public, according to a Department of Homeland Security report obtained by FoxNews.com.
The DHS report, "Terrorist Use of Social Networking Sites: Facebook Case Study," notes while terrorists have been using social networking sites for quite some time, their strategies for exploiting Facebook have evolved and that they have learned "the inherent value in exploiting a non-ideological medium."
Loved the one about the foodie group. I am following that blog now. Thanks for this post!
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