NC – Heading back to school can mean mixed emotions for children and parents alike. Many kids are ready to meet new friends and teachers, but at the same time they are reluctant to give up the freedom and frivolity ...
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Allergy Quiz: It’s Back To School, And Time For All Of Us To Learn About Anaphylaxis
NC – According to Health Canada, close to 6 percent of Canadian children have a food allergy. Greater public awareness and understanding of anaphylaxis could help save lives. Elizabeth Monk, a spokesperson for Allerject, notes that the seriousness of anaphylaxis ...
Read More »Black Candidates Willing To Speak Up For Communities
By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Exactly two months from now, Torontonians will cast their ballots in the 2014 Municipal Election and five first-time, African Canadian candidates are hoping that they will be the choice to represent ...
Read More »4 Fascinating Reasons Why Music Can Enrich Your Life
NC – Year after year, scientific research makes clear the benefits of music in people’s lives. Whether it’s our mood or our overall state of mind, music is an enriching addition to the listener’s life, and with such a variety ...
Read More »Two New Books Remember Peter Tosh: Stepping Razor
By Norman (Otis) Richmond, aka Jalali Pride Contributing Writer There are two new books out on Peter Tosh aka Wolde Semayat, Cecil Tulloch’ s, Remembering Peter Tosh and John Masouri’s biography, The Life of Peter Tosh: Steppin’Razor. Bob Marley’s art director, ...
Read More »Pubic Hair: The Hairy, The Hairless, And The In Between
By Amirah Pride Sex Columnist Have you ever just stared at a vagina? Isn’t she beautiful? Whether her hair is long and curly, short and cropped, or bald, a woman’s vagina is a sight to behold. I started shaving my ...
Read More »US President Obama Mulling Broader Strikes Against ISIS?
By Jim Lobe IPS Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON, DC (IPS) – Last week’s video-taped beheading of a U.S. journalist by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has spurred renewed calls for President Barack Obama to broaden Washington’s military ...
Read More »Jamaica Passes Yet Another IMF Test
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC— Jamaica has passed its fifth consecutive quarterly International Monetary Fund (IMF) test with the government Friday pledging to continuing the extensive program of tax and public sector financial management reforms. An IMF team wrapped up the assessment ...
Read More »Sex And The City: The Big Apple Calls Yet Again!
New York City in the summer time is the stuff that dreams are made of! Summertime in New York is always a fun time for me, and as I spend yet another week and a half in the city that ...
Read More »Birds Of A Feather?
Dear Editor: Assimilation and integration has caused the ideology of Rastafari to be contaminated with Babylonian thoughts and sympathies. Hearing Patrick Roots and King David from CIUT radio describe Rastafest as “Not a Black thing but a Rasta ting” sent ...
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