The push to provide mental health care access has just taken another step in the United States. The Center for Medicare & ... Read More
Teen Health
Now That Sallie Mae Is Good, Rapper Dee-1 Gets His Health Right
For hip-hop artist Dee-1, eating healthy hasn’t been easy. “I’m working all the time in the studio, doing concerts or in meetings, so I’m ... Read More
Growing From Abused Boys To Healed Men
Ty* sits in his drug rehab group for another week. But, this week he decides to share why he’s been so angry most of his life, how he ... Read More
Our Girls Matter: Making Progress Against HIV Among Girls & Women
Flash back to the early years of the HIV epidemic, a small clinic in any city, USA. A young woman sits quietly in a cramped office waiting ... Read More
#WeSeeYou: Here’s Why This 18-Year-Old Self-Taught Pianist Went Viral
Like most viral sensations, this video of an 18-year-old pianist was unplanned. But, after Sara Hadley, a Lansing resident, posted her ... Read More
More Than Teasing: LGBT Youth & Lasting Mental Health Problems
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) teens who experience severe harassment can suffer from serious mental health problems, a new ... Read More
#WeSeeYou: Third Grader Makes Wigs For Little Girls With Cancer
Like many girls her age, Lauren LaRay could spend her free time playing in her hair or cutting Barbie a fly bob (oh, I'm the only one that ... Read More
Silento: “Less Talk, More Action”
Unless you have purposely tried to mute everything around you, chances are you have heard, saw or even sung along to “Watch Me (Whip/Nae ... Read More
Sex Education In Schools: Is There Such A Thing As ‘Too Early’?
With the the possibility of politics dictating the future of free clinics like Planned Parenthood, R. Kelly's sex crime allegations recently ... Read More
REPORT: Half Of Young Blacks Don’t Believe They’ll Live Past 35
While the average life expectancy for white America is somewhere in the mid-70's, a new report gathered by Huffington Post shows that only ... Read More
Uncommon Types Of Diabetes
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 4.9 million African Americans living in the United States with ... Read More
Simone Biles & Gabrielle Douglas Make Gymnastics History
If you are in need of an accurate definition of #BlackGirlMagic, look no further than the gravity-defying and spellbinding performances of ... Read More