Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.

When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.