It's Too Early to Break Out the Sorghum Beer: Is Africa Turning the Corner on...
Is Africa truly rising? The IMF recently estimated 5.5 percent average annual growth rates for the continent. This provoked the usual rash of breathless predictions that we will soon see the end of...
View ArticleThe 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: Remembering When Parents...
It started as a whisper. But the injustice taking place in 1954 to African-American school children in Topeka, Kansas, didn't stay quiet for long. It took Oliver L. Brown, a welder for the Santa Fe...
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Photo Series Captures The Endearing Misery Of Dogs At Bath Time
Dogs are one of nature's most enthusiastic and loving creatures. Whether it's going for a walk, having a snuggle on the couch or playing a game of fetch, man's best friend always seems to be on board...
View ArticleWhy Homophobia Is Not Actually a Phobia at All -- and How We Can Combat It
Homophobia is not like having a fear of spiders or heights or the dark. It's significantly less primal or natural (an ultimate irony), and it's really not related to fear at all. Fear is a behavior...
View ArticleThe African Women's Education Terror Antidote
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram has merely shone a light on how the education of girls and women in Africa is viewed: with indifference...
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AJ McCarron And Katherine Webb Make Inspiring Choice For Flower Girl At Their...
Just off his selection in the fifth round of the NFL draft, freshly minted Cincinnati Bengals player AJ McCarron has made an important pick of his own. The former Alabama quarterback and his new...
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The Old Lady and the Sea
An orca named Granny was recently spotted swimming off the coast of Vancouver Island with her family. Seeing a wild orca is always an unforgettable experience, but getting a chance to see Granny is a...
View ArticleDr. Shefali Tsabary: Stop Seeing Your Child As An Extension Of Yourself (VIDEO)
Dr. Shefali Tsabary, clinical psychologist and author of The Conscious Parent, has made a name for herself by calling for a radical restructuring of the parenting hierarchy. Rather than following the...
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Eckhart Tolle On The Small Steps That Lead To Greatness (VIDEO)
We've been taught to dream of achieving greatness. But what does that mean exactly -- write the next great American novel, become CEO of a Fortune 500 company, compete in the Olympic Games? According...
View ArticleNew CDC PrEP Guidelines Could Transform HIV Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) took a major step toward transforming HIV prevention in the U.S. May 14 by recommending that health-care providers consider prescribing pre-exposure...
View ArticleInternational Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia Taking Place in Over 120...
Today, May 17th, 2014, marks the ninth annual International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia held in over 120 countries and impacting hundreds of millions of lives. IDAHOT, as it is commonly...
View ArticleOn Brown's Birthday, A Return to the Table of Brotherhood
Today we mark the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board Education -- the seminal Supreme Court decision striking down "separate but equal" in America's public schools. Fast-forward six decades, and the...
View Article60 Years After Brown v. Board, America's School Boards Call for Vigilance
In the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a timeless and transformative message: All students deserve a great public education; separate systems are not equal....
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Camels, Eunuch Festivals And A Miner Rescued: Week In Photos, May 11 - 18
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...
View ArticlePolice Officers Rescue Dog Stuck Neck Deep In Mud (VIDEO)
It was Pluto's lucky day. After a 13-year-old Australian shepherd didn't return home as usual last week, the dog's owners frantically searched for the pup for two days. On the third day, the Shorr...
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Advocates Say Female Genital Mutilation Is On Rise In U.S., Call On...
Available reports make it seem as though the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is happening only in far-off places -- like rural parts of Africa and the Middle East. But the brutal tradition...
View ArticleObama Administration, Congress Move To Address Growing Veterans Affairs...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration and Congress are moving quickly to respond to a growing political firestorm over allegations of treatment delays and falsified records at veterans' hospitals...
View ArticleThe Problem of Health Inequity Unites Us All
The science that informs medicine -- including the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease -- routinely fails to consider the critical impact of sex and gender. These omissions exist at the same...
View ArticleBeagles Rescued From Lab Testing See Sunshine For The First Time (VIDEO)
All animals should have a taste of freedom. That's why one California-based animal welfare group is working to free dogs who live their lives in cages at the mercy of laboratory researchers. In a...
View Article22 Veteran Suicides a Day: How We Got Here
Not that you’d want to get here, but there might be some usefulness in examining factors that might lead to 22 per day. Memorial Day, when we stop to remember and thank our veterans seems like a good...
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