Health News: Glaucoma, Alzheimer’s Disease, HIV/AIDS in Women and Girls

World Glaucoma Week
People of African descent have a 3–8 times higher risk than other people to develop open-angle glaucoma. Not only is this group at increased risk, but glaucoma is 15 times more likely to cause blindness in those of African descent between the ages of 45–64 than in Caucasians of the same age group.  [...]

Black Women….Not Enough

Not Enough Net Worth:  
Apparently, a recent report “a leading economic research group,” social scientists are looking focusing on the financial plight facing African American women.  According to an article written by Tim Grant in The Post-Gazette:
Women of all races bring home less income and own fewer assets, on average, than men of the same race, [...]

What are You Passionate About?

That’s a question I ask would be suitors. It’s more illustrative than “where do you work?” You find out more about a person and less about how they pay the mortgage.
Me? I believe that information is power. And my personal goal is to learn as much as I can and share that knowledge with others.
That’s [...]

Book Recommendation: Root and Branch

What:  Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation by Rawn James, Jr.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign. Root and Branch [...]

All The Single Ladies!

Sometimes the single life doesn’t feel like a Beyonce video.  And as we learned from Race Talk’s Angela Stanley, it ain’t cheap either.  Shoveling duty over the last two weeks has also put me in the “yeah, I’m independent, but I could still use some help!” mood.  There is still snow on the ground but [...]

Haiti One Month Later

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) writes about his recent trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti as a part of a congressional delegation:
As weather paralyzed the nation’s capital with record snowfall, scrambling schedules and disrupting plans, I was able to participate in a short, one-day trip to Haiti. Normally I would think twice about the usefulness of spending less [...]

Zen Habits: Curing Email Insanity

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow him on Twitter.
The beauty of an empty inbox is a thing to behold. It is calming, peaceful and wonderful.
An inbox that is overflowing with actions, urgent calls for responses, stuff to read … it’s chaos, it’s stressful, it’s overwhelming.
A friend recently posted:
“Help! I’m drowning in email!”
Let’s look at how to [...]

The Cost of Being Single and Childfree

It’s apparently more cost efficient to be married than it is to be single. Well, perhaps not in all cases, but there does seem to be benefits that are pretty good and, so far, largely unattainable for single people. Though many have delved into the financial pros and cons of being married versus single, few [...]

Which One Are You?

Several news outlets have reported on a new study from Black Entertainment Television (BET) Networks – who knew they conducted studies?   “African Americans Revealed,” is a study of more than 80,000 African-American consumers over an 18-month span broken down into several individual research reports.  The report findings include a segmentation study, which revealed that African-Americans [...]

Family Remains Key to Cultural Identity After 18

Mom and dad will be happy.  Even after children turn 18, they still cling to the cultural traditions and learnings from their youth.  Cultural education remains a key facet of parenting.
According to a new study from San Francisco State University,
The formative years don’t stop at 18 according to a new study that found the actions [...]

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