Health
Month: October 2018
Family
Black Women And Breast Cancer: Why Our Diagnosis And Care Are Different
Originally Published by: Black Women’s Health Imperative. Think of this: Two women are diagnosed with breast cancer. They are the same age. They have the same educational background and income level. One is Black. The other is white. Even […]
Family
Obama Foundation’s launch of the Global Girls Alliance
THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD IS ONLY AS BRIGHT AS OUR GIRLS Today, more than 98 million adolescent girls around the world aren’t in school. The Global Girls Alliance, a program of the Obama Foundation, seeks to empower adolescent girls […]
Music
WILL DOWNING FULFILLS A VOW TO GOD WITH NEW ALBUM “THE PROMISE”
A CELEBRATION OF FAITH THAT BREAKS NEW GROUND FOR THE PRINCE OF SOUL WILL DOWNING “As I lay in the hospital bed, all hope seemingly gone, I started to pray like never before, begging for help and promising God that if he got me […]
Family
Leaving a Legacy: The Story of Jordan Taylor Brown
When Jordan Taylor Brown smiled, people around him smiled too. That’s what his mother Loretta remembers. But when Jordan was 21, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and an act of violence ended his life. During […]
Family
African American Literature Book Club Recommended Reading List
Recommended Reading By Troy Johnson N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Years The Hugo Awards are generally considered the highest honors bestowed in science fiction and fantasy writing. The […]