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Univision, the premier media company serving the U.S. Hispanic community, announces that it will host a Historic Education Town Hall with with President Barack Obama that will be taped and then later aired as a television news special entitled Univision News Presents: The Moment is Now - The President, Hispanics and Education. The Town Hall will be held on Monday, March 28, 2011 and hosted by Univision's news anchor Jorge Ramos at the following location: Bell Multicultural High School 3101 16 Street, NW 9405 Washington, DC 20010 The Town Hall event will give President Barack Obama the opportunity to engage with students, parents and teachers about education and Hispanic educational achievement. The event will also focus on better preparing students for college and 21st century careers, greater parental engagement in education, and the politics of reforming the educational system according to a Press Release. The Town Hall will be taped at Bell Multicultural High School from from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EDT and will air without commercial interruptions at 7 p.m. EDT/PDT, 6 p.m. CDT on the Univision Network, and closed-captioned in English on CC3 where available. The event will also be streamed online at www.EsElMomento.com in English and Spanish as well as simulcast on Univision Radio in Spanish. PRESS INFORMATION: Beginning at 8 a.m. EDT although subject to change, pre-registered members of the press are invited to cover and will have access to wi-fi, a mult box and feed to the Town Hall taping. In addition, refreshments will be served. It is asked that all media RSVP by Saturday, March 26. RSVP/CONTACTS: Carolina Valencia - (646) 673-6494, cvalencia@unvision.net Paula Alvarez - (347) 268-7408, pmalvarez@univision.net ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: In the lead up to the Town Hall, students, parents and teachers will have the opportunity to submit an education-related question for President Obama. Questions can be submitted to Univision until Sunday, March 27, 2011 thro

LOS ANGELES | June 7, 2011 Mike Yepremyan was a 19-year old Armenian-American with his whole life ahead of him. A good-looking kid with dreams of space-flight, he was a sentimental young man who once delivered a single rose to every girl in Los Angeles Baptist High on a Valentine's Day the year before his death. Just a month before he died, he asked his parents about becoming an organ donor and when his life ended so unsuspectingly, Mike helped many others carry on their lives with their families. In November of 2009, Yepremyan's life ended after a text message sent to his girlfriend set off a series of events that would change lives forever. "With what appeared to be a sweeping punch aimed at the back of Mike's head....there was a boom and a shower of sparks," witnesses said according to a report in the Los Angeles Times while describing the shooting incident in which Hombert "Mike" Yepremyan was killed. Apparently, the killers escaped that November night in 2009 in a BMW. The driver of the BMW was later discovered to be Vahagn Jurian, 22, of Van Nuys, described in courtroom testimony as the cousin of "Kat." Yepremyan's girlfriend had become close with Kat who Yepremyan referred to as a "bitch" in a text message he sent to his girlfriend that November night in 2009 that set off a series of events that ultimately took his life. More than a year after his murder, Hombert Mike Yepremyan's parents had almost given up hope that their son's murderer would ever be apprehended until police had tracked whom they believed had killed Yepremyan - in Puerto Rico. Federal marshals on the island surrounded Zareh Manjikian's apartment complex in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Manjikian, now 23, finally appeared and was whom police believed escaped in the BMW driven by Jurian. Marshals followed him into a neighboring beach town and when opportunity knocked, U.S. Marshal's arrested Manjikian who was taken away in handcuffs. When Yepremyan's father received a call from a detec

This article explores the tension between place, space, and memory as they relate to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and are enacted in the arena of tourism. Tourism seeks to produce an appealing, easily narrativized experience that distinguishes one local