“Find Our Missing,” a handsomely produced 10-part docu-series about unsolved cases, premieres Wednesday night on TV One, and it is not nearly outspoken enough about its cause: It’s a show about cases of black people who vanished suspiciously and who, for reasons that should probably embarrass producers at local and national news operations, never got the same amount of media attention as their white counterparts. Read full article > >

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TV One’s ‘Find Our Missing’ takes on the mysteries that didn’t get the headlines

Barack Obama first made national news when, in 1990, he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He was 28, and lengthy feature articles offered the initial draft of the personal history Americans would come to know well: His life as “a street kid” in Indonesia exposed him to the cruel gap between rich and poor; his correspondence in high school with his economist father in Kenya awakened him to a proud African heritage that “was to be a major influence on his life, ideals and priorities.” Read full article > >

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Janny Scott’s ‘A Singular Woman,’ a biography of Obama’s mother

The Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia erupted Tuesday, forcing thousands of nearby residents to flee, the Antara national news agency reported.

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Volcano erupts in Indonesia