I hope you receive this in the spirit in which it is given. But y’all first-of-the-year gym people fray my nerves.
I’m always next to the one go-hard lady on the elliptical. My eyes are rolling all over my head....
“This virus will have dire consequences on so many, but specifically African Americans, which suffer from higher rates of chronic illness.”
That was part of the message of Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, conveyed Sunday evening during...
Talk to Towanda Peete-Smith for just a little while and you likely will pick up on her sincere sense that God works things out for you.
Her allegiance to that belief got tested on the morning of Oct. 22, 2017...
Late 2010, Tammy Coleman received a devastating phone call from a close friend that forever changed her life.
“She told me she had two years to live,” said Coleman. “When she told me it was from breast cancer, I literally...
Angela Bassett continues to be the picture of health and an inspiration to women everywhere thanks to the powerful roles she plays and the unwavering beauty and grace with which she lives her life.
The actress recently opened up to...
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
– Proverbs 4:23
When your nine-year-old son’s father dies from a heart attack at age 43, one path forward would be to focus on bringing awareness to men’s...
Each year, The March of Dimes' "March for Babies" campaign raises funds to support mothers and families who have children that are born prematurely. And even as COVID-19 cases spiral upward locally, Damon Hunter, a member of Alpha Phi...
by Jannelle Walker, Special to The New Tri-State Defender
This week, 68-year-old Loretta Griffin became the first African-American Memphian to compete in the National Senior Olympics for swimming, coming full circle from her days of doing water aerobics at the...
Penny Hardaway had been to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital before but never as the high-profile coach of the University of Memphis men's basketball team. That he did on Thursday.
Hardaway -- Penny to many -- started his visit by...
It is seldom that you have a chance to thank a hospital for saving a loved one’s life with more than just words and donations.
Quintin Robinson has been given the chance to do that with his recent appointment as...