Brandon Frame (pictured), a young African American man, is concerned about the prevalent and negative images of black men in society. At only 25 years old...
Forward By Ryan Elcock In a world where a black male could be shot for wearing a hoodie and carrying a bag of skittles and a...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios In the latest study of stop and frisk policies, in which law enforcement randomly stop individuals for questioning even if...
Darren Walker – Incoming president of the Ford Foundation. PHOTO/Ford Foundation Darren Walker, who emerged from small-town Texas to an international career in law and finance...
The Magic Johnson Bridgescape organization is opening two more schools to be located the South Shore and North/South Lawndale neighborhoods of Chicago this fall. The launching...
Incoming principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, Professor Archibald McDonald, says if the institution is to remain viable, it will have...
By Christopher Duff There is a world that has been pulled over our eyes. A world that is designed to make us believe that we are...
John Hines – Chief technologist and manager of the astrobionics group at NASA Ames Research Center. PHOTO/NASA Nano satellites opened up space exploration to a wider...
The United Nations (UN) has refused, again, to countenance the claims of 5,000 cholera-affected Haitians against it. The Haitians contend that grossly inadequate sanitation at a...
Effects of climate change in Northern Kenya. PHOTO/Sarah Elliott/EPA African leaders have been urged to consciously promote indigenous locally developed technology usage in order to adapt...
People caught lighting up in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public spaces now face hefty penalties in Jamaica. The new law also prohibits smoking in outdoor...
African American lawmakers on Tuesday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to do something about changes to a college loan program that they say make it tougher...
Author Tope Folarin (pictured), has been named as the winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing for his “utterly compelling” short story Miracle. Miracle...
The Bahamas government says it plans to introduce the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine into the public healthcare system for females who are most at risk...
Since the implementation of a comprehensive prevention program in 2004 by health officials in St Vincent & the Grenadines have reported a decrease in the number...
By Christopher Duff A lot of people do not realize that the entire landscape of the business world is shifting. Most of us only hear about...
George Keith Martin. PHOTO/University of Virginia The University of Virginia (U.Va) has named its first African American rector. George Keith Martin, an alumnus of the university,...
Archibald McDonald The University of the West Indies (UWI) has announced that Professor Archibald McDonald has been selected to succeed Professor Gordon Shirley as Principal of...
The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island-nation over the past...
A survey conducted in 2010 revealed that at the time, over 25 percent of Jamaica’s doctors wanted an end to the free healthcare system that was...
Obama visits his grandmother in Kenya before his presidency By Yetnayet Z. Demissie and Dennis Matanda While its well within some people’s right to gripe about...
Dr. Rosalind Fuse-Hall Dr. Rosalind Fuse-Hall is set to becoming the 17th president of Bennett College on July 1, following a press conference that made her...
(Reuters) – Seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have cut the number of new HIV infections in children by 50 percent since 2009, the United Nations AIDS...
Dr. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has voted unanimously in appointing a Guyanese academic as the ninth president...
Otha Thornton. PHOTO/Sara Caldwell (Marketwired) – Cincinnati, Ohio – Today, Otha Thornton was installed as president of the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA), making history as...
Misconception of Passion: The mistake that we make is that we define passion to be the ‘thing’ we’re interested in. So we’ll say stuff like ‘my...
(Black PR Wire) – Miami Gardens, Florida – The Board of Trustees of Florida Memorial University, have announced the appointment of Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis (pictured),...
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin says she plans to step down next month after four years as “America’s doctor.” In an email to staff Wednesday, Benjamin...
Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey is giving US$12 million to a museum being built on Washington’s National Mall that will document African American history, officials said Tuesday....
(Black PR Wire) – Atlanta, Georgia – This Father’s Day, ASPiRE will feature special programming that showcases a range of fathers and reflections on fatherhood. “Cos-A-Thon,”...
Styles by Niché, a Toronto-based social enterprise, which was co-founded by one of our own, Christopher Duff, will be hosting a workshop called “The Passionate Life”....
St. Paul’s College has informed an accreditation association the historically black college is closing. President Belle S. Wheeler of the Southeastern Association of Colleges and Schools’...
Researchers have found that gene flaws that raise the risk of breast cancer in black women may be behind more cases of the disease in black...
Kenya Airways was recently under the spotlight when two employees became the first father – daughter pilot team in the carriers’ history. Captain Mwangi has been...
By Christopher Duff Vital signs are often checked by health professionals in order to assess the most basic body functions. The four things they examine are:...
The United Nations Organization’s efforts to tackle cholera in Haiti are “almost non-existent”, a medical charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres has revealed, as the world body faces...
The Magic Johnson Bridgescape, a charity organization that was founded by basketball great and hall of famer, Earvin “Magic” Johnson to provide students who have dropped...
The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is forecasting an extremely active hurricane season this year. In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook, the...
NAACP leaders from around the United States are honoring the memory of the group’s former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated...
By Christopher Duff “There is a serious problem that our young people are facing today, and I believe that there is more we can be doing...
By Christopher Duff I had an interesting conversation with an older gentleman. He asked me ‘why are young people so lazy?’ I got upset. I asked...
According to a new report, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are attracting more Asian and Latino students than ever before. Many of the top HBCUs...
Haiti’s government Monday called on the public to act against cholera infections especially in the capital Port-au-Prince where one fourth of all cholera cases have occurred,...
A Kenyan researcher, Dr. Simon Barasa-Situma of the Technical University of Kenya, has modified the world’s first recorded HIV “cure” and says it has worked effectively...
Volunter participates in shelter construction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. PHOTO/File (PRWire) – Port-au-Prince – At the opening ceremony of the first meeting of the Committee on Coordination...
By Christopher Duff “There is something I have always been extremely fascinated about. It’s why geese fly in a V-Formation. There was a study done sometime...
Dr Carron Gordon. IMAGE/Television Jamaica Lead medical researcher Dr. Carron Gordon and her team at at the University of the West Indies have discovered that simple...
Contrary to a widely accepted belief, African-Americans may have a higher rather than lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis than Caucasians, according to a new study...
By Christopher Duff “Story Time: A young guy walks into a Best Buy, finds an associate and says ‘I want to purchase a us$5,000 TV’. The...
Haiti, one of the world’s most deforested countries, launches its first national tree-planting program in May this year. The Martelly administration government calls the effort “a...
By Christopher Duff “Just an FYI, for those beginning to pursue their passion, don’t think you have to automatically start charging. Learn to capitalize on unpaid...
Brigadier Gen. Nadja West (pictured), deputy chief of staff, for the United States Army Medical Command will be promoted to Major General. This promotion will make...
By Christopher Duff Forward by Ryan Elcock If you were to ask someone what my greatest gift is, I am sure they would tell you that...
The United States Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin, will deliver the commencement address to the Spelman College class of 2013 at the schools graduation ceremony scheduled...
(Black PR Wire) – A new report shows that an aggressive, state-wide effort to provide African Americans with colorectal cancer screening and treatment eliminated long-standing disparities...
Dorell Wright Dorell Wright who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA has partnered with the UNCF (United Negro College Fund) through his own...
Dr. Lawrence Williams. PHOTO/Scientific Research Council Of Jamaica Jamaican researcher, Dr. Lawrence Williams has figured out a way that eliminates the need for laboratory testing of...
Howard University in Washington, D.C. , holds the top rank for Peace Corps volunteer-producing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with 21 undergraduate alumni serving as...
(Black PR Wire) – Torrance, CA – After two days of intense competition among 250 students representing 48 competing teams, Morgan State University claimed its second...
(Black PR Wire) – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is proud to announce its 5th Annual Media Institute on Health. The three-day conference will...
(Newswise) – The need for professional care of African-American children with autism can go unmet. Some of the disparity could stem from cultural differences in parental...
(American Association for Cancer Research) – Baldness was associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer among African-American men (and by extension men of African descent)...
Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, and statesman who gave literary birth to modern Africa with Things Fall Apart and continued for decades...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios A landmark trial challenging the New York police department’s (NYPD) controversial stop and frisk policy began in a lower Manhattan...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – Bethesda, Md., March 15, 2013 – If a screening test could not only catch cancer early but also help to prevent it, could you...
St. Vincent Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is calling on Caribbean countries to establish a regional reparations committee, pledging to spend the rest of his life...
Patricia Mawuli “Young people should understand that hard work is the only secret to success and you must stay focused in everything you do if you...
Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III The United States senate has confirmed Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III as the new commander for U.S. Central Command at MacDill...
Representatives of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) community have launched an effort to stream a techology-based entrepreneurship initiative at Black institutions. The United Negro...
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller with Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. PHOTO/Ranu Abhelakh/Reuters The Caribbean only two women heads of government Friday pledged to...
(Black PR Wire) – Menlo Park, CA, March 7, 2013 – Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys has teamed up with Greater Than...
Policewoman frisking man. PHOTO/Hill Street Studios The head of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) has indicated that there are some members...
New president of the University of Southern Mississippi.,Dr. Rodney Bennett More than 50 years ago, the president of an all-white university in Mississippi went to such...
Trayvon Martin. PHOTO/Martin Family/AP (Reuters) – One year after the fatal Florida shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin sparked national debate about gun laws and racial...
The United Nations on Thursday formally rejected a multibillion-dollar damages claim for a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has been widely blamed on U.N. peacekeepers. About...
A White House official said President Obama will deliver the commencement address at all-male Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr....
Treena Livingston Arinzeh. PHOTO/NJIT Treena Livingston Arinzeh will be inducted as a fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) on February 17....
Kimberly Anyadike Meet Kimberly Anyadike, a young pilot who learned how to fly from an after school program focused on helping at-risk youth realize dreams –...
Lamont A. Flowers (pictured), who is a distinguished professor of educational leadership in the Eugene T. Moore School of Education at Clemson University, and is the...
Scientists in Zimbabwe say a freshwater crayfish introduced from Australia is breeding out of control in the northern Lake Kariba, devouring the food sources of other...
A recent report released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) suggests that there has been a drop in the number of African-American men applying...
(PRNewswire via COMTEX) – Every year the Carnival in Cap Haitien provides an outlet to Haitians from all walks of life to participate in a fun...
Zora Ball. PHOTO/Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Meet Zora Ball, who at 7 years old is the youngest person to create a mobile video game...
Ethiopian Jews attend a protest in a neighborhood in the Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi, where 100 Israeli families had signed a confidential agreement with their...
A younger Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1955. PHOTO/Wikimedia Commons Bravery, tenacity and maybe a little of her own stubbornness led Rosa Parks...
Cancer patient after a scan at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. PHOTO/Jim Bourg/Reuters (Reuters) – Drops in smoking may have helped drive cancer death rates down...
Students, supporters and alumni of Maryland’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), namely: Bowie State University; Coppin State University; Morgan State University and the University of...
New Morehouse College president, Dr. John S. Wilson Jr., has his work cut out for him as Moody’s downgrades credit rating. Morehouse College, the alma mater...
Marshall Shepherd. PHOTO/University of Georgia While growing up in Canton, Ga., University of Georgia climate scientist Marshall Shepherd knew he wanted to grew to become an...
(Reuters Health) – Kidney disease patients who are African American or lack private health insurance are less likely to get matched up with a donor organ...
Jean S. Desravines. PHOTO/Jami Saunders Jean S. Desravines is the Chief Executive of New Leaders Inc., – a non-profit organization that recruits and develops leaders to...
Christopher Smith, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, looks at stem cell samples through an inverted microscope in a lab at the Johns Hopkins University. PHOTO/Patrick...
The 44th annual National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Image Awards will be held on February 1 this year. Re known Comedian-TV talk...
Christopher Smith, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, looks at stem cell samples through an inverted microscope in a lab at the Johns Hopkins University. PHOTO/Patrick...
Sam Egonu – Founder and Executive Director 180 Change Street. PHOTO/CBC Sam Egonu is the founder and Executive Director of of the Toronto youth program 180...
Africa is pulling out all the stops in its race to curb the AIDS pandemic by 2015, a deadline set by UN member states. From making...
Haiti, a member of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping has been re-building since the earthquake struck on 12 January 2010.
Lawrence Carpenter – founder Owner and CEO, Super Clean Profesional Janitorial Services. PHOTOGRAB/Vimeo.com Young African American men, especially ex-offenders, face high obstacles to employment. That is...
Quvenzhané Wallis. PHOTO/Getty Images Wallis, who was just 5 when she auditioned for the role in “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” has received major recognition and...
Cholera could be contained in Haiti by vaccinating less than half the population, University of Florida researchers suggest in a paper to be published Thursday in...
Press Release: Primature Haiti (PRNewswire) — Haiti is one of the safest destinations; not just in the Caribbean, but throughout all the Americas. This is the...
African American school boys. PHOTO/News One African American teenagers perform better academically when their parents instill in them a sense of racial pride. New research shows...
Press Release Ebony Expressions and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center host a Kwanzaa Celebration, 6:30, Friday, December 28th at the Martin Luther King Center, 630...
Jamaica says it intends to eliminate mother to child transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and syphilis in Jamaica by 2015. The government of Jamaica...
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaica will be rolling out the National Health Card before January 31 next year. The country’s Health Minister, Dr Fenton Ferguson, said there...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says it has merged five different health research agencies into a single office that has already attracted nearly US$10 million in donations....
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at an interfaith vigil for the shooting victims from Sandy Hook Elementary School on Sunday Dec. 16 2012 at Newtown High...
U.S. President Obama emotional as he talks about the Connecticut school shooting. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP Air Force One touched down at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks around...
Geologists in the United States have warned that deadly tsunamis threaten the Caribbean and are an overlooked hazard in the region. Scientists attending the annual meeting...
The NAACP is going on the offensive on education, deploying volunteers across the country in its biggest push for a public education overhaul since the nation’s...
Fisk University has selected a college administrator from Michigan to be its next president. H. James Williams (pictured), is the incumbent Dean of the Seidman College...
Elementary school children in Ethiopia with their inexpensive OPLC laptops. PHOTO/Petterik Wiggers/PANOS Schools in Africa are going digital—with encouraging results. Teaching at the Amaf school in...
When English teacher Faith Linton first proposed translating the Bible into Jamaica’s patois tongue in the late 1950s, most people who heard the idea shook their...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) says it is mobilizing volunteers to lobby at the state and local levels for its biggest...
AP – Haiti is overhauling its adoption laws for the first time in nearly 40 years in an attempt to end practices that have allowed thousands...
Freeman A. Hrabowski III. PHOTO/IUPUI In 2011, University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) President Freeman A. Hrabowski received the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Academic Leadership Award,...
Haiti and the Dominican Republic will require US$2.2 billion over the next 10 years for an ambitious plan to eliminate cholera, an official from the U.S....
Throughout his career, Mike Tyson has been viewed as one of the all-time boxing greats to ever set foot inside the ring. Now the former heavyweight...
(Barbados Nation) – The days of victims of crime costing the government and people of Barbados thousands of tax-payer dollars to fly them back to country...
Joy A. Buolamwini (l), Rhiana E. Gunn-Wright (c), and Nina M. Yancy. PHOTO/Journal of Blacks in Education The Rhodes Scholarships, considered by many to be the...
Kelvin Doe. PHOTO/Paula Aguilera, MIT Media Lab At the age of 13, Kelvin Doe, while living in Sierra Leone created batteries and generators using materials he...
The number of children born with the deadly HIV declined significantly in the Caribbean during the period 2009 and 2011, according to the 2012 global report...
News Release (Marketwire) — The University of Botswana Faculty of Business will receive a US$115,000 grant to develop graduate and executive business programs from the Graduate...
(Jamaica Observer) – Only 15 percent Of the 15,000 qualified students applying to study Medicine at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus each year...
A stem cell emerging from rat bone marrow. PHOTO/Imperial College London Former Bahamas Minister of Health Dr. Marcus Bethel has warned of the potential for abuse...
Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. speaks at Fayetteville State University’s convocation. PHOTO/File (PRNewswire) – The Morehouse College Board of Trustees has announced that Dr. John Silvanus...
A team from the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has won Innovation Awards for 2012 for its pioneering treatment for high...
Farell Duclair – athlete, educator, entrepreneur and founder of the Everest Academy Former football star player in the Canadian Football League (CFL) Farrell Duclair is the...
Health officials in Barbados have issued a leptospirosis alert urging the public to wear adequate protective clothing when participating in outdoor work or recreational activities, such...
Sports began on American college campuses as a way for students to blow off steam and be healthy. Over the last century and a half, athletics...
Alex Ihama Alex Ihama, is a Life Coach, Author and Inspirational Speaker who has been delivering keynotes to variety of audiences all over the world for...
Danny Simms. PHOTO/Hayes Sahlan Danny Sims, who has died aged 75, was one of the first black music entrepreneurs and the first non-Jamaican to recognise the...
Incidence of sudden cardiac arrest higher in Black people. IMAGE/iStockphoto In a survey released on October 17, the Heart Rhythm Society, along with Ipsos Healthcare, reported...
Grenada which has announced 2013 as the scheduled start of several major initiatives – including the beginning of construction of a new parliament building – is...
Nevis-based Cancer Cleared Clinics said last week that it is waiting for approval to operate its breast cancer clinics in thirty countries. Cancer Cleared Clinics claims...
The University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) in South Africa has been rated the top business school in Africa at the 5th...
Satellite image of Tropical Storm Sandy. IMAGE/NASA A tropical storm warning has been issued for Jamaica as Tropical Storm Sandy approaches and is expected to strengthen....
South African scientists have discovered how some people can make potent antibodies capable of neutralizing strains of HIV, taking researchers a step closer to developing a...
New evidence has emerged about the alleged role of United Nations troops in causing a cholera epidemic in Haiti. The new evidence could have serious implications...
Jamaica is stepping up mosquito eradication across the island and urging school children to stamp out breeding grounds to combat an epidemic of dengue fever, the...
Nigerian farmers (r-r) Alali Efanga, Friday Alfred Akpan-Ikot Ada Udo, Chief Fidelis Oguru Oruma and Eric Dooh sit in the court in The Hague, Netherlands, 11...
Doctors in the Bahamas will perform the country’s first stem cell procedure essentially opening the flood gates to a cutting-edge technique with serious medical tourism potential....
With a surcharge on wire transfers and international phone calls into Haiti generating only between US$40 million and US$50 million for education, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe...
Historically black colleges and univerisities (HBCUs) have produced 25 percent of America’s black college graduates and most of the black doctoral degree recipients, according to the...
Cancer patient after a scan at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. PHOTO/Jim Bourg/Reuters Howard University Hospital has partnered with a local Positron emission tomography/ computed tomography...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) — The Oando Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Oando PLC, one of Africa’s leading indigenous energy solutions providers – is attending the Clinton Global...
(Reuters) – A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was “regrettable” but has been brought under control, the...
The Department of Education recently announced it is providing US$228 million in grants to 97 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in 19 states. The funds...
The government of Haiti has announced a ban on importing, manufacturing and marketing them as of October 1. “This is a logical decision and makes sense,”...
(Jamaica Observer)- The United States says Haitians and Jamaicans are among nationals not eligible to apply for the 2014 Diversity Visa (DV) Programme. The US Department...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson. PHOTO/File An education program named after NBA legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson has arrived in Georgia. The Magic Johnson Bridgescape center is now open...
There is an abundance of research on academically underprepared students and their experiences at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Likewise, there is a fair amount...
Jamaica is in the process of finalizing a National Workplace Policy on HIV/AIDS. The policy will be tabled in parliament in the coming weeks. The country’s...
Just when Haiti thought it had cholera under control, Tropical Storm Isaac came along. The storm left at least 24 dead in Haiti, and reignited fears...
I am just a man that loves reality. I give my all to Women in Sports because even they can say they don’t know many men...
Winners Development has announced a partnership with American World Clinics (AWC) to jointly develop an international medical center in Barbados. The US$100 million project will be...
African American middle class family. PHOTO/The Voice On the night of Barack Obama’s election, I was reporting in the crowd of Chicago’s Grant Park, and like...
African American school boys. PHOTO/News One District of Columbia and area students who headed back to school this week are expected to achieve academic excellence regardless...
Sandora Irvin – Founder and CEO BWAP. PHOTO/BWAP BWAP’s Sandora Irvin had a conversation with Chris Reese, here is an excerpt of that discussion. The year...
Morris Brown College officials have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a last ditch effort to prevent the 131-year-old school from being foreclosed on and sold...
Kenyan scientist Dr Peter Gichuhi Mwithera of the Institute of Primate Research, in Nairobi, Kenya has developed a substance that kills the virus that causes AIDS...
The routine use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing for screening and monitoring prostate cancer has led to early and more sensitive detection of the disease....
Morris Brown College, a Historically Black College established in 1881 by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is facing foreclosure. For more than a decade, Morris Brown...
On September 14th in Toronto, friends of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will have an opportunity to Celebrate the Congo. Celebrate the Congo is a...
The Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science is predicting that the next two weeks could see intense climate activity at 130 percent above average. Weather...
Judge Wilhelmina Wright. PHOTO/Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Wilhelmina Wright has been appointed to the bench of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Wright will...
A teacher of the all-boys grade six at Jericho Primary School, assists one of her 49 students. The school separates boys and girls to gain optimal...
African American school children. PHOTO/NewsOne After reading President Obama’s Executive Order creating the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, I thought about my...
In the United States, black women make up 60 percent of all new infections among women, most acquiring the disease through heterosexual contact, according to the...
The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has called on several Caribbean countries, including Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, to impose a moratorium in...
Despite its struggles to get regional governments to remain current with their financial commitments, the University of the West Indies is continuing its regional expansion. Even...
Freeman Hrabowski III. PHOTO/IUPUI President Barack Obama has named a University of Illinois alumnus and nationally known college administrator to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on...
Jamaica celebrates its 50th anniversary on August 6. Jamaica, with a population of approximately 3 million, was the first and largest of 10 Caribbean islands to...
African American school children. PHOTO/NewsOne.com President Barack Obama signed a highly acclaimed executive order July 26, one that will significantly improve the education of African Americans....
Acinetobacter Bamannii. PHOTO/Wikipedia The Bahamas Public Hospitals Authority has reported that two babies have died and another six are being treated following a bacteria outbreak at...
Houston pastor Timothy W. Sloan has felt for years that he needed to talk about HIV and AIDS with his congregation. But he worried the 3,000...
Thirty years into the HIV and AIDS epidemic, Caribbean countries are slowly putting necessary legislation in place to ensure the rights of workers despite their HIV/AIDS...
The fine line between the American Dream and the African-American Dream is becoming more distinct, according to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a...
The death rate from the Haiti cholera epidemic that has killed more than 7,000 people over the past two years has finally ebbed, but the debate...
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist., William Raspberry. PHOTO/Julia Ewan/AP William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists...
Haiti’s infamous Cite Soleil, one of the world’s most violent and run-down slums, could boast a 15,000-seater stadium and sports complex if one philanthropist’s dreams are...
Michaela DePrince. PHOTO/First Position Michaela DePrince was little more than a toddler when she saw her first ballerina — an image in a magazine page blown...
Of the more than 1 million people in the United States infected with HIV, nearly half are African American men, women and children — even though...
Maj. Gen. Marcia Anderson is the first African American woman to be promoted to a two star general in the U.S. Army. PHOTO/Courtesy US Government The...
The main promenade in the capital of Luanda in Angola. PHOTO/Alamy This year Luanda, the capital of Africa’s second largest oil producer Angola, has been named...
Borrowers hoping to consolidate their student loans through a special program created by President Barack Obama last year have just until Saturday to apply. To much...
Philip Akin, Obsidian artistic director Black was the new black at the Dora Mavor Moore awards on Monday night, as Obsidian Theatre dominated Toronto’s annual theatre,...
With each gunshot that is fired off on the mean streets of Chicago, the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, and south central Los Angeles, an...
Cholera has two faces in Haiti. Alongside the strain causing an epidemic is another that does not lead to epidemics but can cause severe symptoms. Better...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson. PHOTO/File Former NBA star Magic Johnson is bringing his fight against HIV and AIDS to Miami. On Monday, the hall-of-famer was in Miami...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – 100 Black Men of America, Inc., Chairman Albert E. Dotson, Jr., the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of 100 Black Men of...
Last summer, three of my cycling buddies and I headed out for one of our regular, “let’s-see-who-can-suffer-the-most” bike rides in the rolling hills of Caledon, northwest...
An American investor has received approval from the Bahamas Ministry of Health to develop a cutting-edge clinic on Grand Bahama specializing in stem cell therapy. Okyanos...
Rev. Fred Luter acknowledges the crowd at the Southern Baptist Convention prior to to being elected as the first African-American vice president of the organization, Tuesday,...
Natasha Trethewey. PHOTO/AP Natasha Trethewey began writing poems after a personal tragedy. While Trethewey was a college freshman, her mother was killed by a stepfather Tretheway...
Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts The diagnosis of Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts has brought attention to a rare blood disorder. Roberts announced Monday...
Cullen Jones was five when he almost drowned but rather than live in fear of water the American jumped back in with both feet, overcoming his...
Dr. Didra Brown Taylor. PHOTO/drdidrabrowntaylor.com Dr. Didra Brown Taylor partners with black owned beauty shops across the country to address health disparities in African American women....
The U.S. Defense Department has announced that Navy Rear Admiral Michelle J. Howard has been selected for appointment to the rank of vice admiral, and for...
(PRNewswire via COMTEX) — By the National Cancer Institute Many people who fear cancer don’t realize that some types of cancer are preventable. Cancer of the...