December 2014

Putting Your Health First in the New Year By: J. Chevont’e Alexander With the New Year come renewed goals, capsule renewed thinking, new expectations and a greater outlook on life…

By Benjamin Todd Jealous Sometimes the very consumers who need health care the most are the least likely to enroll. This has been one of the challenges faced by the…

If it looks like a fish, smells like a fish, tastes like a fish then it probably is a fish.  The saga of Bill Cosby and the never-ending stories of…

By Hazel Trice Edney NNPA President Benjamin Chavis         PHOTO:Roy Lewis/Trice Edney News Wire Civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis, now president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association,…

By Jason Alderman The Pew Research Center reports (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/) that four in ten American adults have at least one steprelative, defined as a stepparent, a step-or-half sibling, or a stepchild…

We often start the new year with enthusiasm and high expectations, and yet by year-end so many of our great plans are unfulfilled. Will 2015 be another year of doing…

By EZRAH AHARONE As a result of the North Korean-related hacking of Sony’s computer system, order certain “racist” emails of Sony executive Amy Pascal were made public.  This may appear…

By Janeal Downs With the opportunity to use some saved-up vacation time, and with children out of school on break, the holiday season offers a time for families to settle…

Free Tickets to January 23, 2015 performance courtesy of community partners When the highly-acclaimed Crazy Hair Tour rolled into town in 2014, a sold out audience of 1,400 ladies and…

By Janeal Downs It did not matter that she was spending her eighteenth birthday stuck in traffic; what mattered was that Grace Zipperer was on her way to the nation’s…