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This past weekend, Viola Davis paid tribute to sexual assault survivors at the Rape Foundation’s annual brunch in Beverly Hills. She said that when she was a child growing up in Rhode Island, sexual assault was very common. She explained, “Listen, when I was young, there were so many men in the neighborhood who gave […]

Kevin Hart is a married man. He and longtime girlfriend Eniko Parrish exchanged vows in a ceremony in California on Saturday (August 13th) in front of family and friends. Kevin wore a traditional black tux and his wife wore a lace Vera Wang gown. He walked down the aisle accompanied by his two kids from […]

Stand in solidarity and peace with all who suffer from war and violence. Join in and be part of a “flash mob” human formation of the peace symbol on the Jones Lawn of Discovery Green on Thursday, November 19. Formation begins at 12:15 pm.

Marriage Can Kill You: Don’t Use The Gun. Over the weekend, I listened to a friend vent his marital frustrations: “She doesn’t Love me, We haven’t had sex in years, she wants to keep the kids, they’re all I have to live for…” Then on today, I’m reading news on the a murder-suicide of a […]

  I read 50 Reasons to Have a Baby on the Huffington Post and it really made me think about how special and how much of a privilege it is to birth a child. I couldn’t help but think back to one of my earlier fears in life, which was to die without have kids. […]

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Everyday we pass people maybe lending them only enough time to exchange a quick hello, or how you doin’, but how often do we acknowledge that beyond that people are really going through things and have their own story, trials and rough patches their trying to get through? This  women finds a unique way to […]

It was 2007 when Charisma Cannon lost her marketing job in Atlanta, which had the ripple effect of eventually causing her to lose her house. While she was trying to untangle her financial affairs, she was also struck by a mysterious illness doctors couldn’t seem to diagnose. The least amount of activity exhausted her.

At a time when the entire state is under such a severe financial crunch even the most basic of city services are often deemed to be in peril, a Detroit not-for-profit agency is paving the way for homeless dads to remain under the same roof with their children as they desperately strive to regain their […]

Hope is the one thing that makes us keep going as humans.