By Joseph J. Fischel ~sex for sale Until last week, selling anal and oral sex in Louisiana was a registerable sex offense, on par with...
Barbie has stepped onto the campaign trail and will officially announce her bid for President on Thursday. The “I Can Be…President” Barbie doll by manufacturer...
Even though it’s legal for 17-year-olds to get the so-called morning-after pill, a new study shows that pharmacy employees often dole out the wrong information,...
By Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Lucky enough to attend college, I sat in a first-year seminar meant to expose students to a variety of...
A new ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) report revealed that in the first six months of 2011, the agency deported a total of 46,686 immigrants...
By Kiyan Williams I am the over-protective older brother of a fourteen-year old young black woman. And I am worried for her. I was worried...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) opened the nation’s first stand-alone inpatient psychiatry unit specifically for expectant or new mothers struggling with depression...
By Soraya Chemaly I live in a city where the death of college student Yeardley Love and the conviction of her classmate George Hugeley for second degree...
A group of former gymnasts are accusing a nationally recognized gymnastics coach of years of physical abuse, torture and sexual molestation. Doug Boger coached young...
Last Friday, a federal judge ruled against Catholic bishops in a battle over whether the group could impose its views on contraception and abortion through...
Wealthy people are bypassing donor lists by paying off poor people in Bangladesh into selling their organs. An investigative paper, authored by anthropologist Monir Moniruzzaman, examined illegal...
Despite its reputation as a “strong weapon in prevention,” the HPV vaccine may not be benefiting adolescent females equally, a new study has found. According to researchers at...
By Sikivu Hutchinson Black children in America are never innocent. Innocence looks like Dick and Jane, our bright-eyed tour guides through the idyll of green...
Brazil is the second biggest consumer of plastic surgery in the world. Cosmetic procedures have become so widespread that doctors are now offering them to...
A report by the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center says women living on Native American reservations face major obstacles to accessing Plan B...
With: Darnell Lee Moore and Diane Lee Chism So, boy, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the steps. ‘Cause you finds it’s...
March 22 is World Water Day, but for many people around the world, securing safe drinking water is still not obtainable. While unsafe water effects...
Any peace deal in Afghanistan that excludes women or tries to roll back their rights is doomed to fail, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said....