My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work. For the relatively few women with four-year college [...]

Ouestafnews – La lutte contre le paludisme en Afrique vient d’enregistrer une nouvelle étape avec le Faso soap (savon du Faso), un savon antipaludique, fruit des recherches de jeunes étudiants africains. Ce nouveau produit vient s’ajouter aux multiples efforts des promoteurs de la pharmacopée africaine afin de vaincre le paludisme qui reste la maladie la [...]

Black children of the 1950s and 1960s are “babies of the civil rights movement,” according to Judge Lisa White Hardwick. Each of us was profoundly influenced by the struggles and sacrifices of people like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and must own the responsibility to make King’s “dream” of equality and and opportunity for [...]

wheelchairs bought and sold
on street corners
like used cars
but
where do you find an apple
not impregnated by pesticides?![...]

My father liked them separate, one there,
One here (allá y aquí), as if aware
that words might cut in two his daughter’s heart
(el corazón) and lock the alien part
to what he was—his memory, his name
(su nombre)—with a key he could not claim.[...]

For anyone who was there, or watching the video online, it sure looked like Ryan Wash was in full grip of his moment in history.
The graduate of Kansas City’s Central High School had six minutes left in a two-hour debate to help his Emporia State University debate team do what had never been done before.
Two black men, bringing a fiercely personal style honed in urban debate leagues, were on the brink of winning the National Debate Tournament policy debate championship.

At first sight, it seems unlikely – a continent most associated with war and famine producing globally significant scientific research.
However, in many ways, the groundwork is there – knowledge, ingenuity, willingness to learn and adapt, coupled with the rapid expansion of digital technology. All of this is really allowing Africa to play a major part in global scientific collaborations.

Kansas wind energy, which has struggled to deliver its potential, is finally flexing its muscles.
The American Wind Energy Association in a report released Thursday said that in 2012 only two other states — Texas and California — built more wind generation. Kansas more than doubled its production capacity during the year.

In a voice that seemed like a cry to the heavens, an older African-American friend asked: “What advanced age does a black man have to reach to receive nondiscriminatory treatment?”

Everybody needs a place
They can call home
Sweet home

No little face should
Be without a smile