No more excuses: Let’s start protecting women in emergencies
By Marcy Hersh, Refugees International There is always a convenient excuse. In Haiti, we don’t have the time. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we don’t have the funding. In the Syrian refugee...
View ArticleThe Beautiful Game
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME is by an Award Winning Team: Directed and Produced BY Danny Turken, Executive Producers Sam Pollard and W. Wilder Knight II, Line Producer Nicole London and Outreach Producer Dollena...
View Article“Create” nothing: A new social good mantra
Aid workers and development practitioners, how many times have you seen a paragraph like this in a proposal? “Community Mobilization: To ensure communities are… community management committees (CMCs)...
View ArticleWorld AIDS Day 2013 – A statement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
When the World Health Organization established the first World AIDS Day on December 1, 1988, treatment options for people living with HIV were practically nonexistent, and AIDS was almost invariably...
View ArticleGroups Want Human Rights Guarantees from Future Olympic Hosts
SOCHI, Russia — Human rights and gay rights organizations, outraged by anti-gay laws in the Olympic host country of Russia, want the International Olympic Committee to demand human rights guarantees...
View Article#BringBackOurGirls Nigerian Militant group abducts 234 girls
By Eliza Griswold, Slate Magazine Monday marks two weeks since the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has been holding up to 191 teenage girls hostage with total impunity in the Sambisa Forest. The...
View ArticleDestiny’s Bridge- A Home for the Homeless
Tent City. What comes to mind when you first read this? It’s not a play on words where it’s assumed as a “city for campers.” In fact, it’s a homeless community in the woods of Lakewood, New Jersey. But...
View ArticleDr. Steve Perry Evokes Action to Young Black Men
Innovative educator and author, Dr. Steve Perry, spoke about how healing men heals the world to a full house at Hampton University. Perry is author of, “Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the...
View ArticleRacial Profiling: A Color Blind Future?
At a young age, most of us were taught not to judge a book by its cover, yet we will walk down the street and make preconceived notions about a person before we get to learn who they are or what they...
View ArticleChapel Hill Shootings: Anti-Muslim Prejudice Persists
Stigmatization, discrimination, and violence towards the American Muslim community persist in 2015. On February 10, three Muslim students were killed by gunshot wounds to the head in Chapel Hill, North...
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