Author: Laura Heaton

Nominations for the NAMIC Vision Awards, recognizing news and entertainment leaders committed to producing multi-ethnic and culturally-relevant programs, were announced last week, and Enough was excited to learn that the ESPN Deportes feature highlighting the Darfur Dream Team is up for an award ...

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With an estimated death toll of six million, the Holocaust is widely viewed as the singularly most devastating period in modern history. Yet despite the increased interconnectedness of the world today and the international provisions in place to respond to humanitarian crises, the conflict in eastern Congo rages on without an effective international response –- surpassing the Holocaust in number of years and now, even in number of lives lost ...

It seems the pressure may be rising against a Congo warlord known as The Terminator who is a regular at eastern Congo’s most posh establishments ...

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In the last 48 hours since we launched our petition highlighting our follow-up question from Monday’s YouTube Q&A, over 860 people have signed on. In submitting our question to Organizing for America for their online forum today, we let the moderator know that we represent those hundreds of voices who want to know more about the president's plan for Sudan ...

Today the Appeals Chamber at the International Criminal Court decided that the standard of proof the court used to reject the charge of genocide for Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir last March "was higher and more demanding than what is required." ...

Reporting from eastern Congo, the New York Times’ Nick Kristof filed a compelling commentary on the decade-long conflict there that should make world leaders and the broader public stop in their tracks and ask themselves what they’ve done to help the people of Congo ...

After months of delegating the U.S. response to Sudan to his surrogates, President Obama today personally addressed the challenges that have left more than 3 million Darfuris displaced from their homes and many people – even some in Obama’s administration – warning of an impending return to countrywide war ...

Our Sudan question for President Obama surged to the top of the list of foreign policy questions on CitizenTube, so we’re hopeful that the president will address it today in the live YouTube forum. The online Q&A begins this afternoon at 1:45 EST. Tune in at www.youtube.com/citizentube ...