They stepped off transit buses into angry mobs, death threats, and beatings. Calling themselves Freedom Riders, these black and white activists travelled across the South together to expose racial discrimination in the 1960’s.
Kredelle Petway of Apollo Beach and Bernard Lafayette of Tampa were on board the Trailways and Greyhound buses during that frightening trip into [...]
Michelle Obama and “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon turned the White House into a playground to promote the first lady’s “Let’s Move!” fitness campaign.
Mrs. Obama and Fallon did pushups and twirled hula hoops. They competed at dodge ball and tug-of-war. And the first lady triumphed over the comedian in a climactic potato sack race.
After a [...]
Last week marked the beginning of Black History Month. This year, we have twenty-nine days during which we will celebrate the many contributions of African-Americans to our nation’s history. This is a month when we make heroes of people who overcame real, systemic and often legal oppression. We lift up, in President Obama’s official proclamation, [...]
The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer’s research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.
Not all the spending must wait for approval from Congress: Under the plan being announced Tuesday, the National Institutes of Health will devote [...]
Diagnosed with mental illness, Nathaniel Ayers, later portrayed by Jamie Foxx in the movie “The Soloist,” became an accomplished musician.
Black Americans are far more likely than their white countrymen to be labeled schizophrenic, one of psychiatry’s most serious and intractable diagnoses. But a new study suggests that psychiatric bias, compounded by the squishiness of diagnostic [...]
