Black Voices Life

While breast cancer gets a lot of attention in the media and is certainly a concern, heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States and a leading cause of disability among women. Here are seven simple changes you can make to begin nurturing your heart at any stage of your life.

The institution of marriage has never been as scrutinized, politicized, inspected and dissected as it is today. The fact is for men, you don't need to...

I'm used to checking "other" to describe myself. Still, imagine my surprise -- not at the recent headline that interracial marriages are at an all-time high -- but that my marriage is included among them.

The unofficial start of summer is just weeks away. If the thought of baring your arms, legs and belly this summer make you want to run for the cover ups, read on. These slimming strategies can help you jumpstart your weight loss in time for your first barbeque or stroll on the beach.

Being Black prepared me for an eating disorder. Bulimia is a closeted disease, usually practiced in secret, in silence, in isolation. Secrets were the glue that bound my community.

Salecia Johnson is not the first kindergartner to have been arrested for a temper tantrum. There are countless other children of color that suffer similar trauma at the hands of adults in schools.

I should have known by the look in his eyes. The middle-aged white man looked at my chocolate self, then to my light-skinned baby and back to me. "Excuse me," he said walking closer. "But is his father white or Asian?"

The Black Pearls Living blog is based on the best-selling series of books written by Eric V. Copage, an independent journalist living in New York. The books are founded on the concept of "Muscular Black Pride™" -- pride borne from daily, concrete, positive action, not rhetoric. Connect with Black Pearls Living and share your stories of MBP™ via the comments section of this post or on Facebook.

By: Kalimah Priforce This month, I was a presenter at a college readiness conference for young Black males, convened at Berkeley City College in...

It's the first of spring. What better time to clear out dusty old myths for the truth... Here are some of the ones I've heard recently about diets and dieting that aren't true. Take a look and let me know the other ones you're wondering about.

I am so tired of black men writing dating advice books for black women! I love all of the amazing men in my life, but many of them do not know how to...

This week the National Urban League released it's 2012 State of Black America Report and with it hosted a forum at Howard University to discuss the findings.

Janelle Harris wrote an interesting article at Essence.com, discussing stereotypes of Black mothers in America. Like everyone else, I thought back to the women who've influenced me in my life, namely my mother, aunts and grandmothers.

One might be pleased that colorectal cancer death rates have dropped dramatically over the last thirty years. But the harsh reality is not everyone is benefiting from new knowledge about screening, diagnosis, and treatment of colorectal cancer.

Last month I was on a panel at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Show about diversity in the outdoors. It was a broad discussion about how we get more Americans of different colors, philosophies, religions, back grounds, socio-economic positions, and age outside.

Failure. No one likes to fail, yet everyone has. Of course, it's not something that we shout or boast about because it doesn't feel good -- in fact, it feels terrible. Seldom do we ever embrace the failures. It is the lessons learned in these failures that are the crown jewels.

There has been no widespread public call within the African-American religious community demanding for Eddie Long to step down, be sat down or altogether shutdown.

With all the fuss over Beyonce's post-baby body, I'd like to take a moment to talk about my wife's post-pregnancy body. I understand that women spend years of anguish fighting and cursing that baby weight, but that is not necessarily what's on the husband's mind.

New year trends are picking up steam and what was deemed "so 2011" is moving further into the past. Honeysuckle pink, rainbow bookcases, those ubiquitous "Keep Calm And Carry On" signs, I get. But DIY? Dead?

In the wake of Don Cornelius' death, many suicide prevention advocates were hoping that his apparent suicide would give people an avenue for talking about something we don't like to discuss.

There are a ton of things I'll never forget about the first time I gave birth. What I most remember? That the hospital and workers where I had my first daughter sullied what should have been one of the most amazing days of my life.

I recently visited an art exhibit chronicling the legacy of art in Black Los Angeles. The show is called "Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, " and I sat down to speak with the curator of the exhibit, Kellie Jones. Here's the second part of that conversation.