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The Monkees Kick Off Fun 50th Anniversary Tour Down South
Five decades after their TV debut, The Monkees are on the road with a multimedia tour featuring footage from the 1966 television series....
Kristi Wooten
May 27, 2016
What Happened When Jimmy Carter and Bono Went to the Disco?
Jimmy Carter, Bono and Nile Rodgers made for a surprising trio of revelers at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last Friday night. On the...
Kristi Wooten
May 1, 2016
Can Miley Cyrus Educate Millennials About the Fight Against AIDS?
At Carnegie Hall this past Tuesday night, Miley Cyrus joined U2’s Bono and The Edge, Hozier and Jessie J for a World AIDS Day event...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 4, 2015
The Legacy of Live Aid
On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul...
Kristi Wooten
Jul 13, 2015
What Eva Longoria Learned in the Barrios of Cartagena
Eva Longoria says some of her earliest childhood memories are of accompanying her family to volunteer at the Special Olympics in her...
Kristi Wooten
Feb 2, 2015
10 Inspiring Life Lessons From My Conversations With Jane Goodall
THE HUFFINGTON POST One doesn’t need an encyclopedic knowledge of science to hang with Jane Goodall; instead, a dose of curiosity will...
Kristi Wooten
Jan 1, 2015
Star of The Good Lie Has a Holiday Message of Hope (and a Hot New Song With Nile Rodgers)
Emmanuel Jal’s story is an inspiring personal journey of survival: During the second Sudanese civil war in the 1980s, his mother was...
Kristi Wooten
Dec 2, 2014
Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira Vs. Boko Haram
Actress, activist and African American: Danai Gurira believes in the power of using her voice to amplify African storytellers. The set of...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 30, 2014
Original Recipe: Midge Ure and "Do They Know It's Christmas"
THE ECONOMIST THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding and others added their voices and carefully mussed-up hair to “Do They...
Kristi Wooten
Nov 19, 2014
Watch Highlights from the Climate March in NYC
On Sunday, September 21, hundreds of thousands of people gathered on Eighth Avenue in New York City to raise their voices in unison to...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 23, 2014
Ebola Crisis: Idris Elba Goes Viral to Fight the Virus
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Amidst United Nations activities in New York this week, global health experts, NGOs and...
Kristi Wooten
Sep 23, 2014
Inspiring Water Feature: The Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta
Atlanta’s new Center for Civil and Human Rights finds inspiration in the words of Margaret Mead and Nelson Mandela, whose quotes are...
Kristi Wooten
Jul 5, 2014
After Mother's Day, There's Motherlove.
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST PHOTO CAPTION: Motherlove participants pose in front of Joan Snyder’s painting,...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 5, 2014
Jimmy Carter's New Book About Women, Religion, Violence and Power
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST JIMMY CARTER, the 39th president of the United States, is known for staunch opinions on matters...
Kristi Wooten
Apr 28, 2014
Faith & Advocacy: Inviting Others to the Table
From left to right: Rabbi Steve Gutow, Lisa Bos, and William O’Keefe speaking at Fundamentals of Faith Mobilization panel. BY KRISTI YORK...
Kristi Wooten
Apr 24, 2014
The Sachs-Moyo-Easterly Aid Debate: An Activist's Perspective
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST In reading and participating in the exchange about aid to Africa (in particular, the one...
Kristi Wooten
Jun 3, 2009
John Legend and Jeffrey Sachs: Philanthropy's New BFFs
BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST The rooftop of the private Soho House in New York’s Meatpacking District is the perfect...
Kristi Wooten
May 18, 2009
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