2010-01-30
2010-01-28
At the University of Vermont Soledad O'Brien Talks About Service
Soledad O'Brien, just a few days home from being in Haiti covering the earthquake for CNN, spoke at the University of Vermont.
Her keynote was part of a week of events designed to explore Rev. Martin Luther King's ongoing relevance.
Her speech connected many aspects in a history of human neglect.
The failure of Haiti as an infrastructure is a hundred years old," she says. "Haiti did not happen in a vacuum. They have a government that fails them. You cannot ignore a country for so long and then be surprised when there is a price to pay."
According to O'Brien, pre-earthquake Haiti had an 85 percent unemployment rate, 60 percent of the population had no access to healthcare, and an estimated 225,000 children were working as slaves, farmed out as household help.
"As we sit and watch the pictures," she says, "we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we okay with this?'"
She emphasized to the audience that service is a key to progress and to our national morality. She says that was clear in both her time spent after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and in Haiti.
"The only way you can lead effectively in a challenging environment is to serve. By being a serving leader, [King had] the authenticity, the consistency, and ultimately the authority and his message came through."
She quoted Dante's Inferno "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
"There is nothing worse than doing nothing and saying nothing when your voice is needed. Even the perpetrator of something bad is less bad than the person standing by who has an opportunity to speak or to act and chooses not to. There are talkers and there are doers. Which are you? Which am I?"
2010-01-27
State of the Union
CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Campbell Brown will anchor coverage leading into the address. After tonight's State of the Union address, they will do post-response analysis along with John King. Soledad O'Brien will report on polling data. Jessica Yellin will moderate a focus group in Ohio.
O'Brien To Speak at UCA
The next speaker for the Distinguished Lecture Series at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) will be CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien on Thursday, Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m.
2010-01-25
Soledad O'Brien 1997
Take a look at some clips of Soledad O'Brien in 1997 when she was the host of the program about Internet technology, THE SITE.
2010-01-22
CNN Crew Back From Haiti With Orphans
Photographer Tawanda Scott, Soledad and her producer, Rose Arce, about to board en route to Miami from Haiti. 1/21/10
21 orphans from the foundation, Cresh l'enfant Jesus who are in the process of being adopted, were flown to the U.S.
Rose on the plane with an orphan named Sandia.
Workers from Maison des Enfants orphanage tried to get more then 100 orphans to the U.S. embassy. They wanted to get the children paperwork to bring them to the US. All the children are in the process of being adopted. The bus convoy was forced to turn back because trip was slow and hot and the children were vomiting and workers feared for their health.
Martin Luther King, III Filling In For Soledad O'Brien Tonight
Martin Luther King, III will deliver the keynote message at Illinois State University’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dinner tonight, January 22, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Bone Student Center Brown Ballroom. The originally scheduled speaker, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien, was forced to cancel her appearance because she had been on location reporting on the tragic events in Haiti all week.
2010-01-21
Soledad O'Brien Reporting From Haiti
Soledad O'Brien has been posting about her time in Haiti this week on the CNN site as well as on Twitter and on Facebook.
From CNN on Haiti:
Latest updates | Twitter | Full coverage
Hitching a ride with Vin Diesel
2010-01-20
Boykin Subs For O'Brien at Penn State
Keith Boykin -- editor of The Daily Voice online news site, a CNBC contributor, a BET TV host and a New York Times best-selling author of three books -- substituted for CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien as the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Evening Celebration tonight on Penn State's University Park campus.
One of CNN's top special investigations correspondents, O'Brien had to withdraw from the speaking engagement when she was deployed by CNN to Haiti to cover the crisis there in the wake of a Jan. 12 earthquake.
One of CNN's top special investigations correspondents, O'Brien had to withdraw from the speaking engagement when she was deployed by CNN to Haiti to cover the crisis there in the wake of a Jan. 12 earthquake.
Soledad O'Brien - Transcending Race in America
Did you know interracial marriage was illegal in 16 states until 1967?
The life stories in each volume of "Transcending Race in America: Biographies of Biracial Achievers" ask and answer this question: What is it like to be biracial in America--to have a mother and a father from different races?
The series is for young adult readers.
Soledad O'Brien
is the title of the book by David Robson that is part of the "Transcending Race in America" series.
Others in the series include historical and contemporary biographies: Alicia Keys, Beyonce, David Blaine, Halle Berry, Derek Jeter, Frederick Douglass, Mariah Carey, Prince, Rosa Parks, Salma Hayey and W.E.B. DuBois.
David Robson's young adult books include The Murder of Emmett Till, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Auschwitz, The Black Arts Movement, The Kennedy Assassination, and The Devil.
The life stories in each volume of "Transcending Race in America: Biographies of Biracial Achievers" ask and answer this question: What is it like to be biracial in America--to have a mother and a father from different races?
The series is for young adult readers.
Soledad O'Brien
is the title of the book by David Robson that is part of the "Transcending Race in America" series.Others in the series include historical and contemporary biographies: Alicia Keys, Beyonce, David Blaine, Halle Berry, Derek Jeter, Frederick Douglass, Mariah Carey, Prince, Rosa Parks, Salma Hayey and W.E.B. DuBois.
David Robson's young adult books include The Murder of Emmett Till, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Auschwitz, The Black Arts Movement, The Kennedy Assassination, and The Devil.
2010-01-19
2010-01-18
Soledad O'Brien and CNN in Haiti
I spent the day in a tent city. Folks are calm but definitely stressed. They all mention the lack of food and it seems there's no organized system for getting it in this tent city that has grown, in this one part of Port au Prince.
We estimated more than 20 thousand people are in around this park alone. And this is just one of what must be dozens. I counted thirty and finally stopped counting as we choppered in to Port au Prince. Some of the camps are massive and sprawling. Some small and contained.
The big problem in the tent city, besides the food: the injuries. The survivors languish in a hot sun, covered by sheets and blankets on clotheslines...
Tent City in Port-au-Prince
Soledad O'Brien takes a look at the tent cities that have sprung up in the Haitian capital since the earthquake.
2010-01-17
Soledad O'Brien in Haiti
CNN's Soledad O'Brien is arriving in Haiti today covering the aftermath of the earthquake.
Follow her on Twitter (no account necessary) at http://twitter.com/Soledad_OBrien
Follow her on Twitter (no account necessary) at http://twitter.com/Soledad_OBrien
Flew in over dozens of tent cities.Port au Prince built into steep hills, high pop density, and the houses just pancaked. You see a hillside of collapsed homes & a tent city nearby.
2010-01-14
Soledad O'Brien Is Keynote Speaker at Penn State MLK Commemoration
CNN correspondent Soledad O'Brien will deliver the keynote address at th 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at Penn State University.
This year's events mark the 25th commemoration at the University Park campus, dating to 1985 when then University President Bryce Jordan first appointed a commemoration committee. Today, a campus and community committee works with a student committee to develop events, which include the annual Day of Service on Monday, Jan. 18.
O'Brien will speak at the Evening Celebration, which begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 20, in Eisenhower Auditorium. Soledad O'Brien, a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, has been awarded the NAACP President's Award in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service and the Hispanic Achievement Award in Communications.
The Evening Celebration also will feature performances by student performing arts company NOMMO, which specializes in African dance and drumming, choral ensemble Essence of Joy, students from State College Friends School and poet Nathan James.
There is no charge to attend the celebration, but tickets are required and can be obtained at the Eisenhower Auditorium ticket office.
2010-01-07
Soledad Q&A
Patrick Gavin on Politico asks Soledad O'Brien some questions and gets the answers to:
What is your favorite body part (on yourself), and why?
What would you attempt to do if you knew that you could not fail?
When's the last time you used profanity?
Answers at http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1001/answer_this_soledad_obrien.html
What is your favorite body part (on yourself), and why?
What would you attempt to do if you knew that you could not fail?
When's the last time you used profanity?
Answers at http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1001/answer_this_soledad_obrien.html
2010-01-05
Soledad Keynote Speaker at UVM Martin Luther King Celebration
CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien will deliver the keynote speech for UVM's 2010 Martin Luther King Celebration, Education and Learning Week. O'Brien will speak on Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel.
O'Brien has provided award-winning coverage for CNN on many of the top news stories of recent years, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 terrorist attack in London, as well as extensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Most recently, she has reported for CNN Presents: Black in America, an on-air and digital initiative that explores the state of Black America 40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The event, sponsored by the Office of the President, Student Life, and the Office of the Associate Provost for Multicultural Affairs and Academic Initiatives. will include a special guest performance by the New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church Children's Gospel Choir.
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O'Brien has provided award-winning coverage for CNN on many of the top news stories of recent years, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 terrorist attack in London, as well as extensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Most recently, she has reported for CNN Presents: Black in America, an on-air and digital initiative that explores the state of Black America 40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The event, sponsored by the Office of the President, Student Life, and the Office of the Associate Provost for Multicultural Affairs and Academic Initiatives. will include a special guest performance by the New Alpha Missionary Baptist Church Children's Gospel Choir.
More information
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