Cheaters Never Prosper: Take Your Own SAT Test

While we’re on the subject of school, we’re reminded that cheaters never prosper. Business Week/Bloomberg reports: Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Seven Long Island, New York, students were charged with taking part in a scheme in which six of them paid the seventh to take the SAT college-admissions test on their behalf, prosecutors said. Six current [...]

Must Read: President Obama’s Speech to School Kids

Today, President Obama gave his annual back to school speech at Benjamin Banneker High School in Washington, DC. Incredibly endearing was the poised young lady who introduced President Obama. I can’t find her full name. But her first name was Donae and she did such a great job. I think she was the student class [...]

Grace and the Special Olympics

Today I went biking, a new complement to my workout routine. Having been away from it for a couple of weeks, I was huffing and puffing my way through the park trying to get in my (close to) 10 miles. My attitude wasn’t the best. I might have actually been cursing the road under my [...]

You Down With HIV?

I remember a comedian riffing off of Naughty by Nature’s song Other People’s Property (O.P.P.) Instead of the song’s hook, “You down with O.P.P.? Yeah, you know me,” the comedian would add his own words….”You down with HIV? Hell naw, not me!” That comes to mind on this 27th day of June, National HIV Testing [...]

Book Recommendation: Black Woman Redefined – Available Now!

My good friend and colleague former JET Columnist, White House Reporter, MSNBC / Grio.com & Essence contributor Sophia Nelson has penned a new book that everyone is talking about! Black Woman Redefined:  Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in The Age of Michelle Obama. We all heard about and were appalled by the Psychology Today article last week [...]

National Women’s Health Week!

National Women’s Health Week is a weeklong health observance coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health. It brings together communities, businesses, government, health organizations, and other groups in an effort to promote women’s health. The theme for 2011 is “It’s Your Time.” National Women’s Health Week empowers women to [...]

Black Enterprise: Conference Etiquette

Okay, we all go to a lot of conferences.  And we all know those nettlesome conference participants that ruin it for the rest of us that follow the unwritten code of etiquette.  Black Enterprise has a GREAT post that says what we wish we could.  I’ve run into THAT PERSON at every single conference I’ve [...]

Adult Supervised Drinking Doesn’t Promote Responsible Drinking

Did you grow up with friends that had “cool parents” who would let you drink alcohol as a teen? I did. And I get where most of them were coming from. As a parent, they figured their teens would experiment with alcohol. In order to deter binge drinking and possibly drunk driving, these “cool parents” [...]

Do Not Resuscitate Orders Taken Too Seriously?

Do you have a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) in your medical file? DNRs are legal forms instructing health care providers that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other measures should not be performed in the event that the patient’s heartbeat stops. Typically, DNRs are signed by individuals of advanced age or with chronic illness who don’t want [...]

Frank Love: How to Deal When the Interest Isn’t Mutual

If you haven’t checked out Frank Love, then you’re missing thoughtful commentary on love and relationships by a talented black man. A recent blog that caught our attention was about dealing with unrequited love: How often have you heard (or expressed) sentiments like these: “If he would simply stop and get to know me he [...]

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