Luke, a white seventh grader, believes his parents would not be supportive if he dated an African-American girl. "Honestly I don't think my parents would be too happy because ... if you marry a black girl, you're connected to their family now," he said, adding, "and who knows what her family is really like?"
CNN's Don Lemon interviews Rep. Bobby, (D) Illinois who wore a hoodie as a tribute to slain teen, Trayvon Martin.
It's perhaps fitting that a story with so many layers should be symbolized by a layer of clothing.
On the surface, it doesn't make sense. Still hurting from the economic crash, Americans are driving less and buying more fuel-efficient cars. The United States is producing more of its own oil and natural gas than it has in a long time. Yet the price we pay to fill up our gas tanks keeps going higher. It's close to $4 a gallon in many parts of the country and climbing.
In the 1,257 GOP debates we have had to sit through, poverty and the poor have rarely come up, so it was no surprise that Mitt Romney would be dismissive of them in an interview this week with CNN's Soledad O'Brien.
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In the tech world's startup scene, where investors gamble millions on promising ideas, accelerator programs operate as kingmakers. Get into a top one and you'll have access to seed funding, mentors and the industry's leading venture capitalists.
"The pipeline problem." That's the catch-all phrase that keeps coming up in discussions of diversity in Silicon Valley.
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CNN's Soledad O'Brien follows entrepreneurs as they pitch their technology ideas to investors in Silicon Valley.
If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg didn't live near San Francisco, would he have ever worked with Sean Parker?
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Skilled developers are Silicon Valley's scarcest resource. With big companies throwing around giant salaries and startups competing fiercely for talent, the technical ability to build what they envision is often a make-or-break issue for new ventures.
CNN's Soledad O'Brien is chronicling the NewMe Accelerator journey in Black in America 4, which airs November 13.
In CNN's documentary "Don't Fail Me: Education in America," Soledad O'Brien followed three high school students in a national robotics competition created to kids involved in math and science. The documentary airs at 8 p.m. ET Sunday and May 21.
Would you be OK with a mosque in your community?
CNN's Soledad O'Brien shares how growing up in a mixed-race family helped shape her outlook as a journalist.
Below is an excerpt from Soledad O'Brien's memoir "The Next Big Story," published November 2 by Penguin Books. The story begins in 2006, just after she has obtained exclusive access to Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers and has reported on them for CNN's American Morning.
From job fairs to seminars on credit counseling, many churches and religious institutions are not only caring for its congregation's spiritual life, but also taking an active role in its financial life, too.
In the grand scheme of things, LeBron James's answer to CNN's Soledad O'Brien regarding whether race played a role in the backlash to his "The Decision" special -- "I think so, at times. It's always, you know, a race factor." -- wasn't much.
The religious leader behind plans to erect an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York's ground zero said Wednesday night that America's national security depends on how it handles the controversy.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf says radicals are hijacking the talk about the Islamic center and he didn't foresee the problem.
Rail service on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor was suspended for more than an hour Tuesday morning because of a power problem, officials said.
The concept of family can mean one thing to you and another to someone else. In CNN's documentary "Gary and Tony Have a Baby," Soledad O'Brien follows a same-sex couple in their struggle against the legal and personal obstacles to become parents.
From personal stories of growing up with gay parents to challenges of what defines a family, the public's comments on same-sex couples having families was supportive and critical, calm and heated -- sometimes all in one conversation thread.
Q: Who are you? How do you define yourself?
The battered economy is devastating school districts nationwide. Faced with shrinking budgets, many schools say they have no choice but to lay off teachers, cut arts and sports programs or consider other drastic measures to save money.
When you have a name like María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien, you have a lot of explaining to do. My mother is black and also Latina, more specifically Cuban. She is a devout Catholic who credits the Virgin Mary with any success she's had in this country. But it was my father, a man who spoke no Spanish, who chose the name María de la Soledad to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude ("solitude" in Spanish is soledad).
Meet some of Haiti's orphans and their rescuers, Saturday May 8 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.
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CNN's Soledad O'Brien reports on the relief effort in Haiti's cultural capital of Jacmel.
By 2050, the U.S. Latino population is expected to nearly triple. "CNN Presents: Latino in America" reported by Soledad O'Brien, explored how Latinos are reshaping our communities and culture and forcing a nation of immigrants to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here are some of the people who made this documentary possible: Correspondent: Soledad O'Brien
Concepcion Saravia, originally from Nicaragua, says she's always been surrounded by a large family.
Watch some of the countless stories unfolding among the fastest growing population in the U.S.
Have you ever seen 47 million people hold their breath and hope for the best?
CNN's Soledad O'Brien takes an in-depth look at today's Latino experience as well as her own roots.
When you have a name like María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien, you have a lot of explaining to do. My mother is black and also Latina, more specifically Cuban. She is a devout Catholic who credits the Virgin Mary with any success she's had in this country. But it was my father, a man who spoke no Spanish, who chose the name María de la Soledad to honor the Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude ("solitude" in Spanish is soledad).
With "Black in America 2," CNN deepens its investigation of the most challenging issues facing African-Americans. CNN's Soledad O'Brien journeys to South Africa and criss-crosses the U.S., reporting on groundbreaking solutions that are transforming the black experience in America. O'Brien uncovers pioneers who are making a difference: people inspiring volunteerism, programs that are improving access to quality health care and education, and leaders working to address financial struggles and develop strong families. Before and after viewing these programs, use our free Discussion Questions and Learning Activity to facilitate a conversation with your middle and high school students.
Forty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., CNN launches a sweeping on-air and digital initiative, CNN Presents: Black in America. These documentaries, "The Black Woman and Family" and "The Black Man," focus on fresh analysis from new voices about the real lives behind the stereotypes, statistics and identity politics that frequently frame the national dialogue about Black America. Before and after viewing these programs, use the overview questions and discussion activity that follow to facilitate a discussion with your pre-teen and teenaged children.
The Rev. Billy Kyles, the only person standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had started to walk away when he heard the shot.
On November 18, 1978, 909 Americans were led to their death by the Rev. Jim Jones in a mass murder-suicide pact in a South American jungle. Only 33 people survived. CNN special correspondent Soledad O'Brien reported on their untold stories in "CNN Presents: Escape from Jonestown." Correspondent Soledad O'Brien Sr. Executive Producer/VP Mark Nelson Executive Producer James Polk Executive Director Jody Gottlieb Producer David Matthews Senior Editor and Producer/Lead Editor April Hock Senior Editors/Producers Jack Austin Lee Hughey Blake Luce Karen Nolan Wendy Tennery Production Assistant Jack Lyons Photojournalists Jonathan Schaer Greg Kilday David Jenkins Henry Young Mike Calloway David Rust Ken Day Mark Biello Sound Technicians Kevin Kvicala Doug Thomas Jerry Appleman David Ruff Post Production Producers John Cooke Matt Scheibner Audio Mixer Rick Sierra On Line Editor Gary
CNN's Soledad Obrien reveals that Rev. Jim Jones was stockpiling cyanide years before the deaths at Jonestown.
I was truly honored to participate in the CNN documentary "Black in America."
Michelle Obama talks to CNN's Soledad O'Brien about her husband's campaign and the trials of being on the trail.
Reality show star and former Playboy playmate and stripper Anna Nicole Smith's death leaves complicated legal questions unanswered.
A suburban St. Louis pizzeria manager has been charged with kidnapping two boys, one of whom was held captive for more than four years. CNN's Soledad O'Brien recently spoke with personal safety expert Francine Russell outside the suspect's apartment to learn how kids can stay safe.
The number of new breast cancer cases dropped by 7 percent in 2003, according to research presented at a breast cancer conference in San Antonio, Texas, on Thursday. But some cancer experts wonder whether the decline will last. CNN's Soledad O'Brien discussed the new findings with Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
With the war on terror a top campaign issue in midterm elections, President Bush has declassified key findings of an intelligence report after parts of it were leaked findng the Iraq war is fueling terrorism.
Both parties kept a close eye on the results from Tuesday's primaries, to see how the balance of power in Congress might play out in November's general election. In one of the most closely watched races, Rhode Island Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee turned back a tough primary challenge from a conservative contender.
Israeli warplanes attacked Beirut's southern suburbs early Friday and bombed major routes out of the capital to the north.
A federal indictment unveiled Friday alleges seven men in Miami were engaged in a terrorist plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois, and other U.S. government buildings in Miami, Florida.
Remains thought to be of two American soldiers who went missing after an ambush on an Iraqi checkpoint were expected back in the United States on Wednesday for formal identification.
The U.S.-led coalition's No. 1 wanted man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- who conducted a campaign of insurgency bombings, beheadings and killings of Americans and Iraqi civilians -- was killed in a U.S. airstrike.
A new study by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America warns that prescription drug abuse among teens is increasingly common. About 1 in 5 teens has tried a prescription painkiller such as Vicodin or Oxycontin to get high, the study found, and many parents aren't picking up on the warning signs.
Steve Vaught, the self-proclaimed "Fat Man Walking," arrived in New York on Tuesday after a nearly 3,000-mile walk across the country to lose weight and find happiness.
President Bush on Monday nominated Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden as director of the CIA.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and supporters took part in rallies and boycotts across the nation Monday to protest congressional attempts to toughen immigration laws.
Soledad O'Brien has her hands full at home with four young children and at work as the co-anchor of CNN's "American Morning."
Zacarias Moussaoui put himself in the middle of the September 11, 2001, plot on Monday, claiming that he planned to hijack a plane and fly it into the White House and that shoe bomber Richard Reid would have been his accomplice.
California death row inmate Michael Angelo Morales received a temporary reprieve before his scheduled execution Tuesday when two anesthesiologists refused to participate, citing ethical concerns.
Both Time magazine's Michael Ware and CNN's Nic Robertson have spent many days in war zones and know the danger of reporting from Iraq.
Fatal accidents involving teen drivers leave almost two times as many non-drivers dead as teens who were behind the wheel, according to a new report.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke on Wednesday. Whatever his fate, it is bound to reverberate through Israeli politics. Sharon's illness comes just months before a crucial election in March. In that vote, the fate of Sharon's newly formed centrist political party, Kadima, hangs in the balance.
It was a year of high-profile trials, ranging from the spectacle of pop star Michael Jackson arriving at court in pajamas to the outbursts of ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Since 2001, the National Security Agency has been given the power to conduct wiretaps within the United States without first getting a court-issued warrant. President Bush has been criticized for ordering the practice, which he says is necessary for the war on terror.
Holiday shopping season has kicked off. And while sales brought shoppers out early on Black Friday, those savings don't always keep wallets full during the holidays.
The CIA leak probe is again making headlines, with the prosecutor planning to seek a new grand jury and journalist Bob Woodward's admission that a senior Bush administration official talked about CIA agent Valerie Plame weeks before her identity became public.
The ex-girlfriend of a man accused of going on a shooting spree at a Tacoma, Washington, mall Sunday said he called and sent her a text message before the rampage.
Researchers with Merck & Co. report they have been successful at blocking viruses that cause cervical cancer and lesions that become cancerous. About 20 million Americans are living with the virus.
Conditions worsened Wednesday in New Orleans from still-rising floodwater, looting and rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Superdome, where up to 30,000 people sought shelter.
At least one American is missing and presumed dead following last week's terror attacks that killed more than 50 people in London, England. New Yorker Michael Matsushita, 37, is believed to have been caught in the explosion on a train near King's Cross station.
CNN Correspondent Elaine Quijano is in Scotland where the G-8 is meeting. She talked with CNN's Soledad O'Brien about President Bush's reaction to four explosions in London's transport system Thursday.
Having already given birth to two girls, Soledad O'Brien was ready for another addition to her family last winter. Yet she and her husband, Brad, were in for a surprise when, several months into her most recent pregnancy, her doctor told her she had not one, but two babies, on the way.
"American Morning" is adding another O'Brien to its mix.
Senators struggled in public and behind closed doors Thursday about filibuster rules and whether to have an up-or-down vote on President Bush's federal judicial nominees.
Teenagers Josh Long and Troy Driscoll survived six days on a 14-foot sailboat in shark-infested waters off the Atlantic Ocean without food or fresh water.
Before dawn Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an injunction request in the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman who had her feeding tube removed Friday.
Rescue workers and volunteers are working to keep nearly 50 dolphins alive after they beached themselves off the Florida Keys last week. Lloyd Brown, vice president of the Marine Mammal Conservancy, and Carrie Mackey, a volunteer helping with the rehabilitation of the dolphins, spoke with CNN's Soledad O'Brien on the rescue effort.
The man accused of being the BTK serial killer will hear the charges against him Tuesday. Dennis Rader is suspected of 10 killings in the Wichita, Kansas, area. The first was more than 30 years ago. But it was only recent evidence that allowed police to make an arrest.
A U.S. television and advertising campaign is spreading the word in Pakistan about a $25 million reward for information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden.
Johnny Carson gave a generation of comics got their first big break on "The Tonight Show."
As deadly mudslides plagued La Conchita, California, resident Bill Harbison unexpectedly found himself rescuing a woman and a teen-age girl trapped in the wreckage of a destroyed home.
Thousands of Palestinians converged Friday on Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound to mourn their late leader, who was buried after a ceremony in Cairo, Egypt.
The jury in the Scott Peterson double murder trial was instructed to start new deliberations after a juror was dismissed Tuesday and an alternate named.
Almost four weeks after giving birth, CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien and her daughters are adjusting to having twin boys in the house.
Two weeks after capping an exhausting pregnancy by giving birth to fraternal twin boys, Soledad O'Brien has had plenty of fun, if not tons of free time, in her first few days with her now much larger family.
On Tuesday, jurors heard Laci Peterson's stepfather-in-law tell how the family's suspicions about Scott Peterson grew after Laci vanished. CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien spoke with CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin Wednesday on that testimony and the direction of the trial so far.
It's been a rough year for the Soprano family. In particular, Tony and Carmela Soprano -- the mom and pop of "The Sopranos," played by James Gandolfini and Edie Falco -- separated after Carmela tired of Tony's affairs.
The pictures of Iraqi prisoners being abused and humiliated at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison have been chalked up to aberrant behavior by a "few bad apples." But is this an aberration -- or does this spring from a dark side inside most human beings?
Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski is the former military police commander at the Abu Ghraib Prison, where U.S. troops allegedly mistreated Iraqis being held there.
The U.S. military is denying reports of widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners, after an article in The New Yorker magazine cited an Army report describing abuses of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad.
Eight people died in the collapse of the Milestone Tavern when a tornado destroyed large parts of the town of Utica, Illinois.
On March 19, 2003, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. One of the reporters who chronicled the war, spending time with the 101st Airborne, was the Washington Post's Rick Atkinson.
Past research has shown that children who grow up with pets in their homes have less chance of developing common allergies. But a new study finds that parental smoking negates any allergy benefits of pets.
Americans Adele Freedman and Tobb Dell'Oro got engaged last month while vacationing in Iran shortly before a massive earthquake hit the ancient city of Bam. After being buried for hours under rubble, Dell'Oro died of internal bleeding en route to the hospital.
A 110-pound mountain lion attacked two woman, critically wounding one, Thursday in California. The women were riding bikes on a trail in a wildlife preserve in Orange County, California, when, according to witnesses, the mountain lion attacked.
Monday was the first day of a new U.S. anti-terrorism program aimed at fingerprinting and photographing most foreign air and sea travelers arriving in the United States.
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