Survivor Story: 22-Year-Old Overcomes Rare Brain Condition

In 2011, after three days of being unable to eat or drink, Michael Wallace, then 22, underwent an emergency CT scan. Continue reading →

Non-Profit CEO Revives Historic Black Houston

Kathy Payton vacillates between ostensibly different worlds. “I live in a very gray area,” says the 51-year-old president and CEO Continue reading →

Black Construction Magnate Tackles Global Health Crisis

Kenneth Banks is no stranger to spearheading large-scale projects. The founder and president of the multi-million dollar Banks Contracting Co., Continue reading →

Black Women and Lupus: A Survivor’s Story

In the middle of the night, while her child slept in a room nearby, Kimberly Dansby awoke on the bathroom floor, Continue reading →

An 8,000-mile Leap of Faith

For more than 30 years, neurosurgeon A. Leland Albright, MD, has used his clinical prowess to give back. By 2010, Continue reading →

Helen Gurley Brown: Cosmopolitan Icon or Faux Feminist?

To some, Helen Gurley Brown, who died two Mondays ago at the age of 90, was the patron saint of Continue reading →

Life Never Tells Us the Whens or Whys

If tomorrow is judgment day And I’m standing on the front line And the Lord asks me what I did Continue reading →

Tyler Perry and the ‘Baby Daddy’ Discord

I was perusing Facebook and Twitter when I read postings from two prominent Black media outlets touting that superstar entertainment Continue reading →