laughing matter. It has been 22 years since the former Los Angeles Laker announced that he had contracted the HIV virus. ...

Debra Saunders-White, deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs at the U.S. Department of Education, will assume her new duties June 1. ...

We are all in the same boat and must act together to stop the plague of violence. ...

While some change has occurred, the places with a legacy of long-standing, entrenched and state-sponsored voting discrimination still have the most persistent, flagrant, contemporary records of discrimination in this country. ...

Once again the myriad crises, the State of Emergency in America's "dark ghettos" was missing from the agenda! ...

Like virtually every other part of the legitimate role of government, the Postal Service is and has been under attack by conservatives. ...

The mortality rate is probably due to an access to care issues. ...

Parkinson’s disease is a condition in which a region of the midbrain, called the substantia nigra, degenerates. ...

Kaepernick’s meteoric rise from Alex Smith’s backup to Super Bowl runner-up in just his 10th game as a starter highlights the lightning fast rise of African-American QBs in the NFL ...

Two survivors prove it’s no longer a death sentence. ...