With the ever-increasing quantity and gravity of issues confronting young people today, it may seem irresponsible to concern oneself with the frivolity of sport. Nevertheless, if next year is anything like the past 79, on June 11 fans of all ages from every googleable location on the planet will drop their pens, spades, scalpels, hammers, laptops, and instruments of war to crowd around television screens as witnesses to the most popular sporting event the world has to offer.
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In this three part series, Rick Noack explores how young people are fighting the rise of Neo-Nazism in Germany. In this video, Rick shadows a 16-year old movie director who is using the power of film to expose racism and intolerance.
“Millennial News Briefs’” chief European correspondent, Rick Noack, asks German youth about growing racism and a dark chapter in their history.
Next week, Rick will shadow three German youth who are fighting neo-nazism.
With the CEO of the troubled, and federally bailed-out, Citigroup receiving $38 million in total compensation last year, clearly there is a severe disconnect between performance and pay at many of America’s flailing business giants. After producing several piece-meal solutions last February and March, the Obama administration has put forward to Congress a more detailed and concrete policy for dealing with executive pay at companies the U.S. Government is keeping afloat. The success of this, and President Obama’s other economic measures, will determine the future of the Democratic Party.
Project Youthanize’s chief European correspondent, Rick Noack, talks to German youth about Barack Obama who visited Eastern Germany last week.
