On April 1 on PBS, viewers can tune-in to a new half-hours special, Coming Home: Military Families Cope With Change, featuring Queen Latifah, John Mayer and Elmo. This half-hour special, part of Sesame Workshop’s ongoing initiative, Talk, Listen, Connect, tells stories of service members who return home with injuries, visible and invisible, and explores the heroic struggles their families face in discovering a new way of finding a “new normal.”
On the episode Queen Latifah speaks on her father’s battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD):
“My father actually suffered from PTSD. He was a veteran of Vietnam and I know he’s helped a lot of his friends from Vietnam and from other wars to try to get treatment and get help… it was very challenging for us as a family, so I can kind of relate to what the kids have gone through because it can challenge your relationships… [My father] just really explained that he saw a lot very difficult things that were hard to deal with and it was hard for him to deal with them emotionally and psychologically. I started to understand it. Luckily he sought treatment…and it really made a big difference because it helped him to recognize what was going on.”
Continue
ANNE WIGGINS BROWN (1912-2009) was a radio and concert singer, also best known as “Bess” in the original production of George Gershwin’s folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935.
Continue
President Barack Obama walks with a group of U.S. war veterans as they lay a wreath at the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier to mark National Medal of Honor Day in Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday in Arlington, Virginia. The annual event is dedicated to recipients of the Medal of Honor.
WHITE HOUSE OPEN FOR QUESTIONS
President Barack Obama introduces a new tool on WhiteHouse.gov, “Open for Questions,” which will allow you to submit your questions on the economy and vote on those submitted by others. The President pledges to answer some of these questions during an online town hall on Thursday.
“Open for Questions” is the President’s latest effort to open up the White House and give all Americans a direct line to the Administration. To get started, just head over to Open for Questions and set up your account.
Continue
La La Vazquez was spotted out and about with her 2 year-old son Kiyan in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. She also enjoyed a day of shopping on Robertson Boulevard with best friend PO.
Lala is co-hosting the new season of VH1′s ‘Charm School’ airing in May. Keep up with her via her official twitter page. Yep everybody & they mama got a twitter. LOL!
Continue
