Faith & Family

NEW YORK (AP) — Black Roman Catholics are hearing their church’s leaders calling for racial justice once again after the killing of George Floyd, but this time they’re demanding not just words but action. Read more

Gaylord Palms Resort has officially re-opened its doors for summer and is bringing back its fan-favorite summer celebration, redesigned to offer the same all-in-one-place summer fun with peace of mind. Guests will enjoy the family-friendly activities and all-ages entertainment they know and … Read more

Around 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the United States of America (USA). Nearly one in seven of these people are unaware they have HIV. Read more

You put a lot of work into your sign.

When you were done, what was once the side of a cardboard box suddenly became a note to the world – but as you were making it, you have to admit that you wondered if one cardboard sign was going to make much of a difference. You were protesting, but who would notice?  Read "We Are Power" by Todd Hasak-Lowy, and wonder no more.

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Florida A&M University (FAMU) mourns the loss of historian and former dean Leedell Neyland, Ph.D., and former director of athletics Ken Riley, who both passed last weekend.

 “It was a tough weekend for Rattlers,” said President Larry Robinson, Ph.D. “In Dr. Neyland and Ken Riley, the University has lost two outstanding sons, who both exemplified FAMU’s motto, “Excellence with Caring” throughout their lives,” Robinson added. Read more

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bonnie Pointer, who in 1969 convinced three of her church-singing siblings to form the Pointer Sisters, which would become one of the biggest acts of the next two decades, died Monday. Read more

In astonishment, we are seeing the reactions of people across the United States as they express feelings of frustration, hurt, and anger in their cry for justice for George Floyd, whom we painfully watched being suffocated in front of our eyes on video in Minneapolis, Minnesota this past week. Read more

Korboi and Twyana Balla, a black entrepreneurial couple from Minneapolis, were devastated when rioters destroyed and burned down their new business, Scores Sports Bar, while protesting the brutal killing of George Floyd. However, within just a few days, more than 37,000 people contributed mo… Read more

The rest of the country knows George Floyd from several minutes of cell phone footage captured during his final hours. But in Houston’s Third Ward, they know Floyd for how he lived for decades—a mentor to a generation of young men and a “person of peace” ushering ministries into the area. Read more

After most of the United States has been under stay-at-home orders for the past several weeks, the governors of some key states have signaled their intention to begin reopening businesses in the coming days. Read more

The most devastating outcome of the global COVID-19 pandemic has been the thousands of innocent lives the virus has claimed. Death has been a consistent outcome, from the youngest who have fought diligently from still unknown transitional diseases to the most elderly and vulnerable living in… Read more

Every year, there are many programs that give away scholarships to thousands of African American and other minority students. In 2020, though, many of these programs have been cancelled and/or postponed because of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic. However, we were able to find at least 10 … Read more

If you were poor, if you were darker, if you were less educated, if you did not have a home, you were going to be disproportionately affected by this. The national figures bear that out.”  Read more

Wearing masks will likely become the norm as governments work to lower the number of COVID-19 infections and could even become a mandatory part of everyday life as people get back to work in the future. Read more

A Guide to Wearing Face Masks During COVID-19 Read more

Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah, seen here on April 20 in his office at Savannah City Hall, has been a relentless enforcer of social distancing rules in Savannah,  Read more

Mayor Van Johnson made a lot of unpopular decisions in aggressively shutting down Savannah, Georgia, to blunt the spread of coronavirus. And he’s not about to apologize. Read more

Therapy is always the best answer if you're trying to do your own work and if you're trying to make a relationship work.  Read more

The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), has consistently produced unscripted programming centered around intimate relationships as part of its overall strategy, and the reality show Love Goals represents this approach. The addictive program places celebrity couples into the same house with the goal… Read more

When my daughter Kelsey was seven or eight years old, she began her early pursuit of ballet study in a classical arts setting that was predominately white. She didn’t make much of that difference. Her leotard was as black as the asphalt on streets we trekked to arrive at Florida Ballet, and … Read more

Found yourself reverting to your 12 year-old self lately? It can’t be just me. As the weeks of confinement with loved ones stretch on, tempers stretch thin as emotions run high. The sort of emotions we may all be experiencing now aren’t dissimilar to those that might be encountered in anothe… Read more