VIDEO: Telling Americans the truth about foreign aid

We recently had the opportunity to speak with artist Shannon Cunningham and photographer Diane Dammeyer, whose beautiful collaborative work is currently taking the La Jolla art community by storm. We’ve featured the pieces below: innovative paint, ceramic and photograph collaborations that highlight the tangible joy in each subject. The focus of this particular group of pieces is Africa, a point of inspiration for both Shannon,the artist and Diane,the photographer.

Part conceptual magazine, part apparel company, AFRICA IS THE FUTURE, or AITF, is more of an ever-evolving creative project in time travel than anything else. And that’s exactly what its co-founder and creative director, Nicolas Premiere, had in mind. Nicolas was born in France to a French mother and a Congolese father. He and his business partner Patrick Ayamam launched AITF with an important vision in mind: to change the way you think and talk about Africa. We think he’s done just that.

Our ONE advocates continually amaze us with their wisdom, commitment and compassion. Parent bloggers and ONE Moms Christine Koh of Boston Mamas and Asha Dornfest of Parent Hacks, are no exception. They just published a book inspired by their blogs, Minimalist Parenting, which serves as a guidebook for today’s parents who are suffering from information overload.

Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida’s 25th Congressional district took the time to talk to ONE in his office in Congress last month. Rep. Diaz-Balart is known for being one of the most bipartisan members of Congress, and as a member of the State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, he’s a great champion of our fight to end extreme poverty. He’s also been a great ONE supporter – he’s been meeting with ONE members from Florida since 2007.

In our interview, Rep. Diaz-Balart talked to us about Bono, his wife Tia’s humanitarian efforts, why he thinks US foreign assistance is such a bipartisan issue, and what he plans to do to help keep the IA budget off the chopping block.

Refuse to Do Nothing is the book that was written for me two years ago. Well, not really. But it could have been. It was certainly the book that would have helped me tremendously as I wrestled with my own crises of moving from awareness to action. And now it is the book I carry around and give to any woman I meet who has that same look of pain/empathy/sadness/anger/zeal when it comes to the issue of modern slavery.

Rachael Somerville shares her discussion with author C.C. Chapman, revealing his keys to saving the world. C.C. Chapman is an author, speaker, businessman, family man, and a ONE Advocate. We interviewed him via Google+ Hangouts last week, which you can watch in the player below, about his new book, “Amazing Things Will Happen,” and how

We invited you to record and your reason to fight AIDS for ONE’s first-ever YouTube campaign “It Starts with Me” in November. We were really impressed with your videos. And so were the more than 100,000 people who tuned in to watch them. Life altering or seemingly trivial, your stories have one thing in common: they inspired you to make this world a more just place by joining ONE and taking action.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies recently created a video featuring Malawi’s first female president, Joyce Banda, talking about the importance of women’s health and empowerment. Blog and Video by Janet Fleischman and Julia Nagel When Joyce Banda unexpectedly ascended to the presidency of Malawi last April, after the death of President Mutharika, many in