When Robin Hall’s parents first handed him an application for the Black Male Leadership Development Institute last year, his reaction was thanks, but no thanks. He had only recently moved to Penn Hills and was adjusting to his new high school and a new blended family of dad, stepmom, stepsister and his stepsister’s daughter. The [...]

Three students of Makerere University of Uganda have invented a pregnancy scan machine that has already won an award, Ventures Africa has reported. Aaron Tushabe, Joshua Okello and Josiah Kavuma, all sophomores of the University’s College of Computing and Information Technology (CIT), invented WinSenga, a hand-held device that can scan a pregnant woman’s womb to [...]

While the gap between life expectancy rates for African Americans and Whites still exists, it has narrowed over the last two decades, according to “Health, United States, 2011,” a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) report released on Wednesday. Between 2000 and 2009, life expectancy at birth increased more for African Americans than for [...]

“Scandal,” the hit ABC political drama starring Kerry Washington, has been renewed for another season, the network announced. According to E! News, the series garnered 6.4 million viewers and 1.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic for its most recent airing May 10. In “Scandal,” Washington plays D.C. crisis manager Olivia Pope, who has an affair [...]

Although the 2012 Grant Thornton International Business Report may observe that 21 percent of senior management roles are held by women globally, around the world women are expertly succeeding in business and in growing their fields. In South Africa, the Oliver Empowerment Awards, a prestigious event to highlight leadership and innovation in empowerment, showcases two [...]

An obscure grave in Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery is the final resting place of a Black woman who helped change the world. Her name was Hattie Redmond, and she was a leader in the 1912 campaign that won equal voting rights for Oregon women. Now, 100 years later, the Century of Action committee plans to [...]

A Mississippi native, Dr. J. Steven Blake has not only adapted to his Mount Airy neighborhood, but also built community around his medical practice. And in his eyes, building community has meant raising awareness of colon cancer and the importance of colon health — a subject which Blake not only calls his job, but his [...]