Roughly 100 people gathered Saturday afternoon, Jan. 29, at Titan, for Brother, Help Thyself's annual grants reception. In all, the all-volunteer, Washington-Baltimore organization awarded $91,655...
This past year was groundbreaking for gays in black journalism. From black churches supporting or opposing gay marriage to the alarming rise in HIV infection...
Until my senior year in college, I was half the person I am today. I don't mean that this was the point at which I...
For the past year, the Arlington, Va.-based Military Community Services Network has been trying to fill a niche. Today's military may have a commitment to...
My mother's main goal in life is to be warmer. At any given moment, she's devoting a significant portion of mental resources to figuring out...
Among the more scintillating New Year's resolutions I heard this year was one friend's declaration that 2005 is the year of cleavage. While I don't...
Ironically, a few weeks after Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer diagnosis helped put ''a lesbian face'' on cancer, the same-sex marriage backlash as witnessed in the...
On Dec. 26, 2003, an earthquake in Bam, Iran, killed nearly 30,000 people. A year later to the day, history made a terrifying encore with...
After five years at the helm, Cornelius Baker is stepping down as the head of Whitman-Walker Clinic. The Dec. 15 announcement comes not long after...
A billionaire talk show host had a psychotic episode on national television, and then everyone got Pontiacs. ''Everybody gets a car! Everybody gets a car!''...
Minors may not be allowed to vote, but that certainly doesn't allow them to live outside politics. According to a Dec. 9 press release issued...
Job change is in the air. I know this because I've just given notice at my current place of employment and am poised to start...
When Monica Hill joined the Air Force in the 1990s, she and her partner thought it was an excellent way to both act on her...
Less than one year after taking the helm, Cheryl Jacques has resigned as the head of the Human Rights Campaign, the organization announced Tuesday evening,...
There's something so clean and benign about a Skandia shelving unit that you hardly notice it's a tool of the devil until you assemble it...