Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Yahoo News: Celeb-filled, stirring ad confronts world leaders' slow response to Ebola crisis in West Africa (Some months back, it seemed as if about every third news story on Yahoo was about how fabulously wealthy and vibrant Africa is becoming, so why are angry Africans once again haplessly waiting for the First World to bail them out?)


Celeb-filled, stirring ad confronts world leaders' slow response to Ebola crisis in West Africa



Nice earrings. Let's give Morgan a one-way ticket.

Sometimes silence speaks louder than words.

A new PSA featuring some of today’s brightest stars does not feature their acting abilities  it just shows them sitting still.

“This is what waiting looks like,” the clip’s text reads. “Talk is cheap. That's for sure. It’s time to take action on Ebola.”
African musicians Fally Ipupa, Angélique Kidjo, American actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, German soccer player Per Mertesacker and others lent their famous faces to the video produced by ONE, an international advocacy group dedicated to ending extreme poverty and preventable disease — particularly in Africa....