There comes a moment in life — especially when you reach ages 50, 60, 70, and 80 — when something inside begins calling you toward better health, better movement, and better self-care. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve been through; the body sends messages. Maybe it’s stiffnessContinue Reading

Across the United States, many Black men describe a quiet but persistent mental heaviness. It doesn’t always present as panic or despair. More often, it appears as hesitation, second-guessing, and a low-grade uncertainty that hums beneath daily life. Researchers studying chronic stress and racialized pressure have noted that this internalContinue Reading

Life is hard enough. For those who have afflictions like ADHD (Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), life can be unbearable. With so many factors contributing to the condition, many people lose themselves in the ever-complicated existence of trying to navigate life, not totally understanding what triggers their condition, and what is simply anContinue Reading

The world has changed dramatically over the hundreds of thousands of years humans have inhabited planet Earth. Yet, for all our advancements in every field imaginable, humans still exhibit four distinct personality traits. We’re all familiar with two of the types, introverts and extroverts, which were introduced by Swiss psychiatristContinue Reading

or Blacks, making it professionally is the ultimate goal. If you come from humble beginnings, making it also means moving from a bad environment to a better place. But what if financial success doesn’t equal personal pride? For Aulston Taylor, success meant going back home to run the very schoolContinue Reading

CJ AND KOLLIN MATTHEWS CJ Matthews, a high school senior preparing to begin his college football career, has spent the past 13 years building a platform rooted in generosity. Long before Friday Night Lights or recruitment milestones, CJ created The Giving Bowl, a youth-led service movement that mobilizes student athletes to supportContinue Reading

When William Butler Yeats coined the phrase, “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking,” he didn’t know that quote would become the catchphrase to define taking advantage of an opportunity. But that is exactly what people are doing in 2023. ItContinue Reading

BRIAN K. POTIER Brian K. Potier is a native of Lake Charles, LA., and a Spring 2020 initiate of the Zeta Psi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He is the visionary behind the establishment of Tau Kappa Lambda, the first chapter of Alpha in Panama and inContinue Reading

People are quickly learning that the one thing they can count on since the pandemic is that nothing is the same and nothing is safe. Gone is the expectation that life is predictable. The college degree, salary, home, food, and life we all could count on are over. When gasContinue Reading