Bruktawit Tigabu, the 2001 winner of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise, Young Laureates Programme and member of the Baha'i Faith, is featured in CNN International's African Voices for her co-creation of Ethiopian children's TV show "Tsehai Loves Learning."

Congratulations to Los Angeles Baha'i Andy Grammer for winning the 'Most Innovative Music Video' award from O Music Awards.

The latest installment in A Single Arrow Production’s mini-documentary series–”Angels of Iran”–features the story of Mona Mahmudnizhad, told by a childhood friend, Azadeh Rohanian-Perry, who now lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Dr. Cornel West is a philosopher and Princeton professor of African American Studies and Religion and a staunch defender of rights and freedoms for all people. He learned about the Baha’i Faith through his race unity work, befriending Baha’is such as jazz maestro Dizzy Gillespie. Professor West recently welcomed a relative of an imprisoned Iranian Baha’i into his Princeton office and shared his thoughts on the persecution of the Baha’is in the religion’s birthplace.

In this editorial in The Huffington Post, Rothwell Polk highlights the Baha'i Festival of Ridvan (celebrated April 21-May 2).

What makes the Festival of Ridvan, celebrated April 21 to May 2, the holiest of days for Baha'is? It commemorates the anniversary of Baha’u’llah’s declaration in 1863 that He was the Promised One of all earlier religions, thus establishing the Baha'i Faith.

Baha'i Media Services has been collaborating with The Kindling Group, a Chicago media collective, to create web-based video profiles of Baha'is pursuing their calling in the world. This project is in conjunction with the recently aired four hour PBS documentary miniseries, "The Calling" which follows seven young religious Americans as they prepare for a life of religious leadership.

Gleibys L. Buchanan, representative for the Advancement of Women, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, shares what Baha’is believe about gender in this editorial in The Washington Post.

The Baha'i World News Service publicized an open letter from the Baha'is of Egypt to their fellow citizens, sharing perspectives on charting a course for the country's future directed towards "lasting material and spiritual prosperity." Read the BWNS story.

The Baha’i year consists of 19 months of 19 days each. The months are named after the attributes of God. Each Baha’i community holds a Nineteen Day Feast on the first day of each Baha’i month.

AngelsofIran.com‘s newest mini-documentary covers a Feb. 11 meeting in Washington with U.S. Representative from Florida Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and a group of family members of various Baha’is imprisoned in Iran. During the visit Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, assured the family members that their relatives are, “not alone.”

Roles played by Baha'is in the national Preach-In on Global Warming Feb. 11–13 ranged widely in scale and scope. But they shared an optimistic spirit and a conviction that our individual actions can make a difference.