May 12, 2010 Christina Valladares
Addiction to prescription drugs is a silent epidemic ravaging America.
April 15, 2010 Christina Valladares
Growing up you might have heard that education is the key to success. What you weren't told is that you might be one of a million Americans struggling to pay off the debt that comes with an education. With a growing number of students relying on student loans to finance their schooling, grads are likely to enter the workforce with both a diploma and a sack of debt in tow that keeps them in a hole for years, even decades.
Last month, President Obama signed a provision in the healthcare bill that may help students acquire Pell Grants with more ease and for lower interest rates.
Last month, President Obama signed a provision in the healthcare bill that may help students acquire Pell Grants with more ease and for lower interest rates.
April 14, 2010 Chrisnatha Derosier
While most faith-based businesses profess to submit to a power higher than the federal law, can these businesses be just as shady as the next?
March 4, 2010 Tiffani Knowles
Joshua Packwood, a boxed-about kid from the wrong side of the railroad tracks in Kansas City, Missouri, seldom imagined that he would be the fruit of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
The image of little black boys and black girls joining hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers seemed quixotic in 1963, and yet in a freer and what some call a "post-racial" 2010, Packwood holds fast to the words of King.
The image of little black boys and black girls joining hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers seemed quixotic in 1963, and yet in a freer and what some call a "post-racial" 2010, Packwood holds fast to the words of King.
February 19, 2010 Chrisnatha Derosier
He is attractive, successful, educated and he's
a 25-year-old virgin?!In a society where pre-marital sex has become widely accepted, there are a select few who are taking a stand and waiting to experience sex with their wives for the very first time. Colber Prosper, a graduate student at the University of Tennessee, has not always been vocal about his stand for abstinence.
"Everyone is having sex and it seems weird when a young man at my age says that he is saving himself for marriage," said Prosper.
"Everyone is having sex and it seems weird when a young man at my age says that he is saving himself for marriage," said Prosper.
February 18, 2010 Alfred Sarpong
Juliet Asante, African media mogul, assists women in her native Ghana in learning about fertility health to prevent unnecessary deaths.
February 4, 2010 Khari Williams
Soccer player Peterson Bonpied Jerome is driven by his twin loves of game and country. And now, 15 years after leaving his native Haiti to achieve the quintessential American dream, he is poised to contribute to his homeland at its time of greatest need.
Through his Haiti Youth Development and Education (H.Y.D.E.) foundation, Jerome has helped place promising Haitians with soccer teams around the world. His own experience as a young soccer player helped fuel his desire to see others get recognized.
"I was a very good player in high school, but my [own] community didn't know about me, while other communities were praising me," said Jerome, who grew up in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti, located in the northern region. "They knew all about my life, but not my community."
Through his Haiti Youth Development and Education (H.Y.D.E.) foundation, Jerome has helped place promising Haitians with soccer teams around the world. His own experience as a young soccer player helped fuel his desire to see others get recognized.
"I was a very good player in high school, but my [own] community didn't know about me, while other communities were praising me," said Jerome, who grew up in Cap-Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti, located in the northern region. "They knew all about my life, but not my community."
February 3, 2010 Alfred Sarpong
Citing historical, emotional and spiritual ties between their countries and the island of Haiti, various African nations including Ghana and Senegal have begun offering generous support to the victims following the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed at least 150,000 people and rendered some 1 million homeless.
January 20, 2010 K. Swann
Columnist K. Swann dishes on the American obsession with consumerism and how it won't get you an inch closer to heaven.
January 20, 2010 Tiffani Knowles
Sexual predators have taken on another form. They prey on the faithful, church-going youth in their congregation. They are our religious leaders, but not just Catholic clergy anymore.