"louisiana" Articles & Blogs:
Bobby Jindal's Wife Supriya Talks Politics – and Romance – With Meghan McCain
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Supriya Jindal insists her husband’s keeping his head in Louisiana, not looking toward the White HousePost | Today 12:30 pm
Supriya Jindal is something else. A chemical engineer who’s raising three children, the 37-year-old also runs a found...[Read on] |
Robin Roberts wins Walter Camp Football Foundation "Distinguished American" Award
| Former Southeastern Louisiana women’s basketball player Robin Roberts, accomplished student-athlete, media personality, author and breast-cancer survivor, is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Camp Football Foundation "Distinguished American" Award.
The ...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Starting Somewhere
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We drove through Forrest City on the way to St. Francis National Forest because I was curious to see the town, which had been described to me as one of the most segregated places in America. The downtown is a ghost town almost on the level of Cairo, but...[Read on] |
TV Alert- Trouble the Water Premieres on HBO
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Trouble the Water, the Oscar-nominated documentary directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath premieres tonight on HBO at 8:30pm. It is a must see.
Here’s an excerpt from my write-up from last summer when the film ...[Read on] |
Women are Everywhere: National Book Critics Circle Finalists
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Remember way back in November when Publisher’s Weekly came up with a list of the top 10 books (not best selling books) of the year and not a single one was written by a woman? Lo and behold the National Book Critics Circle disagrees a bit and has nomi...[Read on] |
Volleyball star Megan Hodge and basketball standout Maya Moore both win 2010 Honda-Broderick Cup
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The Collegiate Women Sports Awards today announced that for only the second time in its 34-year history two female athletes have tied for the annual Honda-Broderick Cup, its top honor designating the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.
This year’s wi...[Read on] |
Gymnast Carly Patterson going for gold (again)
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2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Carly Patterson is going for the gold again, only this time in music. Carly’s debut album “Back to the Beginning” was released on 8/25 and includes the singles “Temporary Life” and “Time to Wake Up”. The former gym...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Only a pawn in their game
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It’s been a sort of strange and unfocused few days these days: I left the river to go to Jackson to meet up with a new fellow-traveler who got laid low with asthma at the last minute and had to cancel. Somehow the combination of being far from the riv...[Read on] |
Female jockey Julie Krone is a “Freak”
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I was delighted to read that award-winning filmmaker Katherine Brooks (”Loving Annabelle,” 2006, and “Waking Madison,” 2009) is making a film based on legendary female jockey Julie Krone. The film is called “Freak,” which refers to a racing...[Read on] |
Girl Scouts to meet women with non-traditional careers at NASCAR Weekend
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Professional barrel racer Tana Poppino together with three women race car drivers will join 500 girl scouts at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, MO on October 1st during a unique event being planned as part of a NASCAR race weekend at the track.
Tana, ...[Read on] |
Health Reform: Good for Mothers, Good for Families
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by Julia Kaye, Health Policy Associate, National Women's Law Center
Cross-posted from Say Ahhh!
There is a common misconception that all low-income people -- or, at least, all poor parents -- are eligible for Medicaid. It may derive from a mistaken c...[Read on] |
Guest Post: Strange girls love too: Meet Paper Heart’s Charlyne Yi by L.A. Collins
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“I’m a strange girl,” she sighs with a confessional chuckle. Not your typical romantic leading lady by a long-shot — yet twice as magnetic, accessible and risk-taking as any other quirktress (who has drawn comparison to Diane’s Keaton’s unforg...[Read on] |
Interview with Jodie Markell, Director of The Loss of the Teardrop Diamond
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Actress and Director Jodie Markell graciously took some time over the holiday weekend to answer some questions about her film debut The Loss of the Teardrop Diamond now playing in NY and LA. Films opens wider on January 8.
Women & Hollywood: Why did yo...[Read on] |
Get ready for Derby Day
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Fear not party fanatics – even if the Royal Wedding is over, you have another occasion to don your favorite hat and celebrate this weekend. The countdown is on for the biggest day in horseracing of the year.
The 137th Kentucky Derby takes place Saturd...[Read on] |
Honda Award Winners - Best Female Collegiate Athletes
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For the 24th consecutive year, Honda has honored the most outstanding female collegiate athletes in the nation with the Collegiate Women Sports Awards.
Winners are selected in each of the 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports by a panel of more than 1,000 NCAA a...[Read on] |
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