Voices Articles
Black women + body blues?
Black women experience body image blues, too. A recent interview in Harper's Bazaar showed that tennis star Serena Williams, who helped bring stacked back to mainstream, wrestled with her shape. To an extent, it seems she still does.
Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Hudson, Tocarra and countless other women of color provide images which counter the wave of waifs that constantly bombard mostly overweight Americans.…
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Oprah Winfrey to call it quits, end successful show
After 25 years of production and numerous gossip filled celebrity interviews, Oprah Winfrey decided to throw in the towel. Her last day of the show will be September 9, 2011.
Winfrey expressed how much the show means to her and why she has decided to leave during the regularly scheduled broadcasting time of The Oprah Winfrey Show.…
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Study: Many doctors don't blow whistle on fellow colleagues
Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle.
A new survey finds that many American physicians fail to report troubled colleagues to authorities, believing that someone else will take care of it, that nothing will happen if they act or that they could be targeted for retribution.…
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Importance of Juneteenth versus July 4th
Juneteenth is not recognized as it should be because some people don't know the history behind the holiday and why it should be celebrated on a national level.
It does not receive the exposure like the July 4th celebrations.
July 4th is a holiday that is celebrated on a national level with festivities such as fireworks, barbeques and family gatherings.…
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Guest Column
Remembering the best dad in the world
Father's Day will be celebrated June 20 and children all around the world will pay tribute to their fathers. What a blessing it is to have a special father to honor for all of the wondeful things that he does for his family.
A farther is a very important part of the family.…
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Happy Father's Day to mothers who do everything every day
The strength of a single mother is about the closest to Jesus Christ's strength I've ever witnessed.
Last year during President Obama's Father's Day speech he said, "We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception.
"We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child - it's the courage to raise one.…
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