TUNIS — Passions unleashed by the revolution in Tunisia resonated throughout the region on Monday as an Egyptian and a Mauritanian became the latest of six North Africans to set themselves on fire in an imitation of the self-immolation that set off ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 12:10PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- You meet a guy or girl that seems great, and within ten minutes you’ve probably already decided whether you can see yourself marrying this person or not. Go on, admit it. We all want to find that one special person who can con ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 11:16AM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- What's a man to do when his partner is going through "the change?" Menopause is about more than just a woman's period stopping, and you can both survive the challenges if you know what to expect. Many women don’t know what to e ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 11:13AM
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Join us and discover how you can be a voice for the sanctity of human life--whether your passion is the preborn child, orphan care, human trafficking, those living with special needs, the elderly or genocide. You'll be challenged by leaders, moved b ...
Posted Tuesday, January 18th 2011 at 10:55AM
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-- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been taken off a ventilator and is breathing on her own, hospital in Tucson, AZ says.
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Posted Sunday, January 16th 2011 at 9:48AM
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He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. ...He expanded American values to include the vision of a c ...
Posted Saturday, January 15th 2011 at 12:08AM
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Our leaders invoke the dream frequently, but as a society, we rarely measure ourselves against it. Police brutality permeates the surface of a community, and it scars the psyche of everyone who lives there. When police officers can get away with vio ...
Posted Friday, January 14th 2011 at 11:29PM
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The decision to use the Martin Luther King Jr., holiday as a snow makeup day for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has drawn some criticism. There's a lot of emotion involved in the controversy. After passionate opposition to the closing of some west sid ...
Posted Thursday, January 13th 2011 at 7:40AM
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President Obama Is Bringing the " House Down " In Arizona with his message that won him the United States Presidency-- HOPE--- President Obama can run with the best of them when it comes to public speaking, eh! He told the people, "The hopes of a n ...
Posted Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 9:14PM
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On the anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Haiti & killed more than 200,000 people, we look at how the nation is still struggling to rebuild.
• The Root: Haiti's year-long aftershock
• Bing: Charities offering relief & aid to Haiti
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Posted Wednesday, January 12th 2011 at 12:42PM
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AP) Arianna Huffington: There are always going to be unbalanced people, just as there are always going to be viruses in our environment -- but what most determines whether those viruses make us sick is the strength of our immune system. When it is st ...
Posted Tuesday, January 11th 2011 at 11:40PM
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With 500 million users worldwide, Facebook has proven itself to be a very innovative online tool that allows companies to interact with and even market to their existing and prospective customers. Even non-profit organizations, publications (newspape ...
Posted Tuesday, January 11th 2011 at 11:49AM
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TUCSON — In a community college classroom here last June, on the first day of the term, the instructor in Jared L. Loughner’s basic algebra class, Ben McGahee, posed what he thought was a simple arithmetic question to his students. He was not pre ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 6:32PM
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I was asking a nurse colleague if her children spoke her native language and she told me that they didn't, but rather the husband's native tongue. I thought to myself what a blessed woman to be able to trace her precise roots and culture back to the ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 5:35PM
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- Beginning an exercise program can be like embarking on a fun and exciting adventure, but it can also be very overwhelming and painful if you aren’t careful. Warming your body up and stretching prior to exercise is very importa ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 3:22PM
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Have you ever stopped to consider the impact your words have on the lives of those around you? Perhaps more important, have you ever really contemplated how your words impact your children? HSLDA President Mike Smith has a message for parents about t ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 2:23PM
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Martin Luther King, Jr. said “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” Why is this still true? In this clip two Baptist pastors from Salt Lake City (one from a white church and one ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 2:15PM
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NY Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg: On the Tragic Shootings in Arizona
We don't know all the facts from Tuscon, Arizona yet, but we do know that every single day, 34 Americans die to gun violence. And so it will continue until we get serious about cracki ...
Posted Monday, January 10th 2011 at 12:34PM
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EL says of making "Second Chance":
“..., I felt like I was seeing a flower or feeling the sun shine for the first time,” says El DeBarge. “I feel like a brand new artist, like I just came out to Hollywood from Grand Rapids, Michigan and I’m ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 1:20AM
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You all may think I've completely lost it after this post, but I saw something spectacular when I was watching these short clips; perseverance is the key to obtaining success in life and that is even in the face of obstacles. Nature has so many less ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 12:50AM
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Narcotic dependence develops when the body adapts to repeated drug exposure and leads to tolerance or the need for increasing doses to maintain the defined effect of the drug. When the drug is withdrawn, physiologic reactions occur. This is known ...
Posted Sunday, January 9th 2011 at 12:15AM
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Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean has 99 problems and his chick ain't one. The newlywed music producer , 31, has been honeymooning it up on yachts in Corsica, France with his new wife singer Alicia Keys, 29, like he doesn't have a care in the world. Technic ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 6:45PM
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You want to be offended by the title of the article, but then once you read it, Chua’s definition of a “Chinese mother” is really just a strict parent with high standards. Chua seems to be someone who demands that her children not only do their ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 6:43PM
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Check out this article by Dr. Phoenix Austin about dispelling stereotypes about black women. The first thing she suggest and many men will cosign is to smile. I'm sure many women don't mean to but at best too many look like they just sucked on a lemo ...
Posted Saturday, January 8th 2011 at 4:40PM
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