Motivational Monday: 25 Questions to Spark Your Productivity
What if you just stopped running that negative message over it again and again in your mind and started moving? How could you do both well? Why does getting this [...]
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Star Power: Tonya Lewis Lee Launches New Site To Discuss Sexuality, Birth Control & Healthy Choices
Candid and honest conversations on sexuality and birth control can be a difficult task for many women, especially with perceived societal roles. However, Tonya Lewis Lee, celerity health advocate and [...]
SOCIAL ISSUES
Study Analyzes Discrimination Black Adolescents Face in School
Nearly 60 years after the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public schools, African-American adolescents of all socioeconomic backgrounds continue to face instances of racial discrimination in the classroom. A [...]
SOCIO-ECONOMICS
Getting To The Root of The ‘Digital Divide’
Education, age and class continue to create a ‘digital divide’ in internet use and access, according to new research led by the University of Leicester. An unprecedented analysis has found [...]
HEALTH & HARMONY
Life on Purpose: Stepping Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Comfort zones are very important. Our homes should always be comfort zones, places to regroup, recharge our batteries, refresh our psyches and get re-energized for the days ahead. But every [...]
MOVERS & DOERS
Cause of the Week: DC SCORES
Located in some of the city’s most under-resourced neighborhoods that are faced with declining test scores in reading and writing and skyrocketing childhood obesity rates, DC SCORES is an after [...]
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- David Johns: A Fresh Face for African American Education Reform
- Star Power: Tonya Lewis Lee Launches New Site To Discuss Sexuality, Birth Control & Healthy Choices
- Grassroots Giver: “Room To Read” Brings Books to World’s Poorest Children
SOUL LIFE
‘Mothers of No Tomorrow’: Intimate Look at Three Women Who Lost Their Sons To Violence
Three mothers, whose lives were changed forever after losing their sons to violence, are chronicled in the documentary, “Mothers of No Tomorrow.” Leslie Willis-Lowry’s son, 27-year-old Songha Thomas Willis, was [...]
- ‘Call Me Kuchu’ Follows Uganda’s First Openly Gay Man Try To Block A Bill Making Homosexuality Punishable By Death
- Emory Professor’s New Book Explores Young Black Males Who Are ‘Cut Dead’
- Documentary: ‘Life After Life’ Follows Two Men Imprisoned As Teens Rebuild Their Lives
- Documentary: In “Triggering Wounds”, A Young Man Struggles With Gun Violence
VIEW POINT
There Aren’t Happy Endings for Teachers in the Trenches
Walking around a high school campus at this time of year you will notice the air floats a little lighter and the sun reflects off smiles a little brighter. Everyone [...]