Current Events Quiz

1. Who was not invited to the Royal Wedding?

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

2.What's happening in Missouri?

The levees broke causing massive floods


3.How many hostages were rescued in a Mexican Border City?

32

4.What happened at an Afghan prison?

Over a hundred prisoners escaped

5.Why is former President Jimmy Carter in North Korea?

To bring peace between N. and S. Korea


6.When and where was the body of a missing North Carolina honor student found?

On Saturday in Maryland


7.What happened in Texas City?

A plant exploded

8.What new device is Apple releasing this week?

The white iPhone4


9.What conclusion did the NFL come to?

The lockout was lifted

10.What's happening around the south?

Deadly tornado's


11.What's the deal with Donald Trump?

He's saying President Obama's birth certificate is not real

12.What's happening with Katie Couric?

She's leaving the Today Show


13.What is the latest with gas prices?

They are steady rising

14. The United States is in debt by how much?

14 trillion


15. Who's leading the Western Conference in the NBA between New Orleans and Los Angeles?

The Lakers


Who are these people and how have they been significant in the news


Kate Middleton -Prince William's fiancee

Nicolette Sheridan -Desperate Housewife star that's going through a lawsuit with the show

Jay Cutler-Chicago Bears quarterback who is now engaged to a reality star

Andrew Towle -Canadian high school student that is autistic who wanted to be on the track team but was banned because of the time he was enrolled in school.

Sam Nzima -South African photographer who exposed apartheid's brutality to the world.

Honors Day

Texas Southern University recently celebrated excellence in achievement at its annual Honors Day Convocation ceremony. The event took place in the HPE Gymnasium on Thursday April 14 at 10:00 a.m.

The university recognized students who are on the President's List, Dean's List, Honor Roll, and who have a 4.0 G.P.A. Each student received an honors medal and recognition in the convocation program.

Guest speaker for the event was Marcus Davis, president of TSU's National Alumni Association. Davis received a bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science in 1996. He is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

He owns two very successful and popular restaurants in Houston the breakfast klub and the Reggae Hut. The breakfast klub has received rave reviews from respected media such as Good Morning America, Esquire Magazine, and USA Today. Davis prefers to be known as chief steward of tbk Holdings, Inc. the parent companies of his restaurants.

Marcus Davis credits his success on a good upbringing and God.

"As a child my mother would always call my name, when she called all three names I knew I was in trouble,each one of you are being honored today because your names have been called" Davis said.

Davis talked about how Harriet Tubman led the underground rail road to success.

"Harriet was fed up with being a slave so she decided to escape" Davis said.

"She went back for other enslaved Africans because she heard her name being called to help others" Davis said.

Mr. Davis gives credit to Harriet Tubman for his success and the success of the honorees.

"When she would make the 90 mile journey back and fourth sometimes taking three weeks she was calling your name" Davis said.

Texas Southern was proud to announce that out of 9500 hundred students 2000 of them were on the Honor Roll, some for two semesters.

A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words

The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most powerful movements in American history.

Many witnessed the movement through vivid and sometimes graphic photographs.Photography played a keyrole in the Civil Rights Movement.

Many of the photographs are on display at the Menil Collection. The Whole World Was Watching is curated
by Michelle White, associate curator at the Menil Collection.

This exhibition contains photographs from Civil Rights photographers Dan Budnik, Bruce L. Davidson, Elliot Erwitt,Leonard Freed, and Danny Lyon .

Some of the photos were given to the Menil Collection by Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil daughter of founders John and Dominique de Menil.

"I had to choose between 200 photographs to display in this exhibition" White said.

The title of the exhibition "The Whole World Was Watching" was a phrase adopted as a rallying cry for social change by political groups in the 1960's.


The Exhibition contains photos of black protesters being crushed with water hoses, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and police brutality of African Americans during that time.

The photographers in this exhibition were committed in showing the world what was happening in the south.

One photographer in particular stood out. That photographer was Danny Lyon a twenty year old student from the University of Chicago who wanted to come to the south and show the world the injustice that African Americans were suffering.

"He described his experience as grabbing his camera getting on a bus and heading down south" White said.

"He was the staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" White said.

The images displayed were being circulated in magazines and newspapers throughout the North. The most dramatic images came from those taken in Birmingham.

"Birmingham was known as Bombingham because of all the bombing taking place there" White said.

Images of policemen spraying the protesters with water hoses circulated like wild fire.

"When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw the images of the protesters being sprayed with the water hoses he said it's amazing how something so beautiful can come out of something so horrible referring to the power of the image" White said.

The civil rights movement is similar to what is happening today in other countries.

"It's just like the oppressed people now standing up for what is right" White said.

One of the photographs in the exhibition is that of one taken by Dan Budnik. It is a photograph of a protester carrying an American Flag on the way to Selma while passing by a National Guardsman who salutes the flag.

"The reason the guardsman saluted the protester's flag was because he whipped it out as he was passing by so the guardsman had to salute it, usually if a protester had a flag the National Guardsmen would turn their backs to it" White said.

The Whole World Was Watching exhibition is on display from March 5-September 25,2011. A selection from the collection is also on display at the African American Library at the Gregory School, in Freedman's Town in the Fourth Ward.

The Critic

Eric Harrison recently spoke with advance reporting students about the importance of professionalism. He stated that it is important to be professional at all times and going the extra mile and exceeding expectations on the job is not a bad idea.

Eric Harrison is a movie critic, freelance writer, web developer, and graphic artist. Mr. Harrison's career began at the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in journalism.

Harrison's career did not get off to a good start, he interned at the Austin American Statesman. He went in with the expectation of being hired after the internship.

"The editor took me to lunch he told me we like you and you write well but you did not blow us away" Harrison said.

It is one thing to be confident but being overly confident can kill a dream. Not getting the job from the internship reminded Harrison of when he was in an advanced math class in high school where he knew it all and was a hot shot.

"My teacher took me out of the advance class and put me in a basic course, she said I acted as though I was entitled and things should be given to me" Harrison said.

"I didn't learn my lesson cause I did the same thing at my internship but it was the best thing that happened to me" Harrison said.

When you first get a job go in professionally but be cautious because you are being watched. Harrison compared himself to some of his colleagues saying how great they wrote and that he could never be as great as them.

Harrison got the recognition he wanted from his fellow colleagues at the Star-Telegram.

"When I walked in that morning Lena Williams said there he is and she and the editor applauded me on my first story about Valentine's Day" Harrison said.

"In the end they were rooting for me" Harrison said.

Professional dress is a must. Start putting together a profile to display your work. Always be on time if you cannot be on time call. Harrison's work includes writing for the Los Angeles Times,Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, and Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Harrison is the editor of MovieHouston.com.