The awards gala will honor 15 individuals who have made outstanding contributions to medicine and health.

If you have a high-profile lawyer with powerful friends and you’re tortured while on death row in Alabama, everyone in the nation not only knows about it—overwhelmingly, especially in liberal, progressive, civilized circles of thought and news—they’re righteously appalled. But poor death row inmates in Alabama (which overwhelmingly describes the population) who’ve got no high-profile lawyer, […]

As the first and only Puerto Rican-born Globetrotter, El Gato played college basketball for the storied North Carolina Tar Heels and appeared in two Final Fours. He has also played with the Puerto Rican national team.

Campbell Brown, an eight-time Olympic medallist, attended Troy Primary before going on to Vere Technical High School for her secondary education.

As Martin Luther King, Jr., once judiciously declared: “The time is always right to do what is right,” which the Supreme Court can and should do immediately by “[w]iping the stain of capital punishment clean.”

The activities for Reggae Month are coordinated by the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA), and its chairman, Ibo Cooper, said plans are coming together for the celebrations which start in approximately three weeks.

Construction of the new building is expected to begin in late 2018, with completion tentatively scheduled in 2023.

The first Galaxy STEAM week kicked off with an opening ceremony on Tuesday, October 24, with LA Galaxy and SNHU representatives, families and students in attendance. The program will host 50 local students per day, over the course of the week.

Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announces first data of residential and commercial losses

Jones urges commercial insurers to make insurance available to cover cannabis businesses from seed to sale 

“The continued decreases in costs to insurers should be passed along to employers through lower rates,” said Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.

Black women have been among the fiercest leaders to call out racism in America, including Nakia Jones, a black police officer from Ohio who issued an impassioned plea in a viral video she made in response to the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling in Louisiana last year.

Mattern has these tips for those battling to come back after a life-changing trauma: Have faith in yourself. Have more than one focus. If you can’t find courage within yourself, look to those you love.

Since earning the title of “World’s Oldest Person,” Mosse-Brown has echoed that sentiment: “I feel good, I feel happy to be the oldest person [in the world],” Brown told the Observer more recently.

“Submissions for our Writer and Illustrator Contests over the years have come from 186 countries. This year we received entries from three new countries, Andorra, Seychelles and Benin. Selecting the two Grand Prize Winners from the thousands of contest entries submitted is not an easy process.”