• We are beginning to think that perhaps the mining industry isn't the best field to get into right now. Several workers in China are trapped due to flooding in a coal mine.
• The leader of the World Health Organization passed away during surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain.
• New Orleans is deemed as a "Chocolate City" with African Americans significantly outnumbering whites. Mayor Nagin was also re-elected to lead New Orleans again even after his controversial dealings with the Katrina distaster.
• The US Senate voted last week to make English the official language in the United States.
• The domain extension that would allow us all to search for online porn a little bit easier, was rejected for use by the government. Now ICM Registry is to going to sue the government.
• South Korea has freed itself from one kind of evil; Wal-Mart is the second global retailer to vacate the country
• Austin ISD is trying to figure out ways to improve teacher-quality at low-income and minority schools which all happen to be East of 35.
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August Wilson, "Theater's Poet of Black America", passed away yesterday after a brief fight with liver cancer. He was 60. Wilson, whom we profiled back in June, was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of a ten-piece, decade-by-decade exposition of the twentieth century as experienced by African Americans - from dealing with extraordinary obstacles like race relations, segregation, and the suffrage movement, to the banalities of daily life. Most recently the Pro Arts Collective performed Wilson's... more ›

This weekend is your last opportunity to see Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's "King Hedley II" at the State Theatre. More than merely garnering every theatre-related prize under the sun - we count several Pulitzers, a Tony, and the New York Drama Critics' Circle award just at a glance - Wilson is one of America's most perceptive playwrights and, through his works, a historian of African American life. His impressive body of work, most... more ›