Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Michigan has taken a significant legislative step towards ensuring that children in foster care receive the education they deserve, thanks to the recent signing of a pivotal bill by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. This legislative move, aimed at bridging...
9 months ago
The American Heart Association (AHA) has created an index to measure one’s health. The Life Essential Eight is a checklist of lifestyle changes one can make to improve cardiovascular health, lower the risk of heart disease, and slow biological...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Diving into the findings of the 2024 World Happiness Report reveals a complex tapestry of factors contributing to the marked decline in happiness among young adults in the United States. This report, an annual global survey, evaluates the...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
This post was originally published on Word In Black. By: Aswad Walker In the latest edition of “Is this good news or bad news,” out of 153 exonerations in 2023, roughly 61% of exonerees were Black, according to a new report published by The National...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
In the latest edition of “Is this good news or bad news,” out of 153 exonerations in 2023, roughly 61% of exonerees were Black, according to a new report published by The National Registry of Exonerations released on March 18.The good news: Blacks le...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
With the End of the Coal Era, It Just Got Easier to Breathe in New England By Ben Jealous Jerry Curran has been organizing to retire the Merrimack Station coal power plant in Bow, New Hampshire for 17 years. He is one of many local activists who have...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
April is Minority Health Month, a month to raise awareness about the need to reduce health disparities and improve the health of minority communities. The UNC Health Center for Transplant Care team and UNC Health nephrologists recently increased equi...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
(NewsUSA) – April is National Minority Health Month, and Black Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN), and underserved Americans, are among those disproportionately affected by colorectal cancer, according to the Colorectal Cancer...
Lifestyle / Parenting/ Health - 9 months ago
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Academy Award winner Louis Gossett Jr., the tough guy with a sensitive side best known for his celebrated work in the original Roots and award-winning film, An Officer and a Gentleman, has passed away at the age o...
9 months ago
This week, we conclude our look at Spiritual PTSD – Purpose, Strength, Trust, and Discernment by exploring how they work together to strengthen us after we experience spiritual warfare. Just like those who have experienced the trauma of a rea...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
Photo: Getty Images A pregnant Nigerian woman is facing jail time over her online review of a tomato puree brand, Metro reports. Chioma Okoli, 39, gave an online critique of tomato puree brand Nagiko Tomato Mix, owned by Nigerian company Erisco Foo...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Each year, Black Maternal Health is recognized from April 11th – 17th to bring attention and action to improving Black Maternal Health. The week is held during National Minority Health Month. Founded and led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 9 months ago
Contributed The Blue Ash Branch of the University of Cincinnati on March 7 held its annual Scholarship Luncheon in recognition of the scholarship recipients and donors. Two students—Natalie Borgert and Cynthia Kudatsi– were awarded the cove...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on Feb. 22, 1956, as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boyc...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Flojaune Cofer after voting on March 5. Louis Bryant III, OBSERVER With Assemblymember Kevin McCarty and political newcomer Dr. Flojaune Cofer making it to the Nov. 5 election, Sacramento will have i...
