“War Photographer,” a documentary film on JIM NACHTWEY, was nominated this year for an Oscar award in the documentary feature category. Film director Christian Frei followed Jim as he shot images in South Africa, Somalia and Kosovo, using a micro-camera attached to Jim’s camera. The
Roger Atwood’s book, based on his Patterson reports, was published by St. Martin’s Press. It’s titled, “Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers and the Looting of the Ancient World.”
Philippe Wamba, Who Wrote of Life as African and American, Dies at 31 By RANDY KENNEDYNew York Times Philippe Wamba, the son of a Congolese rebel leader, who wrote about his family’s complex and often disorienting dual existence as both Africans and Americans, died Wednesday in
The schools built by Julius Rosenwald, who is the subject of DIANE GRANAT’s Patterson research, were added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 most endangered historic sites. Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., paid for 4,977 schools for black students in
Chris Bull is now senior political correspondent for PlanetOutInc.com, in San Francisco. He writes a column, Bull’s Eye, and continues his interest in baseball, with his office just a few blocks from SBC Park. He co-authored a 2003 book with Billy Bean, “Going the Other
