Featured

African-American Women at a Higher Risk for Pregnancy and Birth Complications

May 11, 2009 · 3 Comments 

Premature, delivery is the most frequent cause of infant mortality, accounting for more than one third of all infant deaths during the first year of life. The infant mortality rate among black infants is 2.4 times higher than that of white infants, primarily due to preterm birth. In the United States, the risk of preterm birth for Non-Hispanic black women is approximately 1.5 times the rate seen in white women. Preterm birth is when a baby is born before 37 complete weeks of pregnancy. Preterm infants who live beyond the... [Read the full story]

Health

HIV AIDS epidemic in our community

November 29, 2008 · 2 Comments 

It is the end of 2008 and we are still looking for a cure for AIDS and our African American communities are in despair. HIV/AIDS are in an all time high and it still doesn’t seem to be a topic of conversation among us. African Americans are disproportionately affected compared with members of other races and ethnicities, but still we are in denial and think that it is not a true consensus. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) which holds the most complete study on AIDS and other diseases,... [Read the full story]

History

Celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

January 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

·         The Home Depot is working to build a permanent exhibition home for the personal writings and papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Center for Civil and Human Rights. ·         To help meet this goal, The Home Depot has created a “Dream” gift card to commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the advancement of his dream. ·         Purchase a “Dream” gift card beginning January 15 through February 28 and The Home Depot will donate five percent of all sales... [Read the full story]

Family

Our African-American Family in despair

October 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

Bill Cosby has always been criticized because of his views, ideas and straight to your face talk about the African-American family, but if you carefully listen and understand what he says and not just agree with others, you may discover truth in what he stands for. Cosby talk to his audience about the rates of juvenile delinquency, its parenting, the coarse language of its youth. You can do better, he exhorts his audiences. Don’t let yourself be victims, and especially don’t let the poorest in the community... [Read the full story]

Relationship

How to avoid falling in love

March 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

cnn.com – What do you get when you fall in love? According the fan-freaking-tastic Dionne Warwick — and she should know from heartache –”You get enough tears to fill an ocean/That’s what you get for your devotion.” Sing it, sister! Sure, you get other stuff, too: hearts, cupids, hickeys, the fun stuff. But sometimes the bad outweighs the good, and every once in a while a lady needs to take a break and keep her heart safe from scoundrels looking to shatter it. However, that doesn’t... [Read the full story]

Money

Tips for Preparing Your Tax Return in 2009

March 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

In our second installment of our weekly series, we will be sharing with you what we’ve discovered and learned about the one thing we have to do every year whether you like it or not, taxes. The first article we published last week  informed us on how to save our house from foreclosure. This week we spent hours searching and reading the ins and outs of our yearly duty. As much as we try not to think about it, we have to exercise our civic duty and deal with it. We work, we died and we pay taxes. We have until April... [Read the full story]

Sexuality