After a Death, Sri Lanka Health Ministry will Inspect Beauty Parlors

Sri Lanka’s 57,000 salons and beauty parlors will be inspected by the health ministry after the death of a customer on November 2, 2011. The woman died due to a severe allergic reaction caused by products applied to her skin during a facial treatment.

CURRENT EVENTS > A Moral Responsibility to our Children

When it comes to legal versus moral responsibility with regards to reporting sexual crimes against a child where do we stand as a country? When role models become monsters isn’t it our responsibility as a country to reprimand and clearly denounce them instead of coddling and giving them succor?

Wilson Ramos, Major League Catcher, Abducted near home in Venezuela

Wilson Ramos is catcher for the Washington Nationals. Ramos, 24, was born in Valencia, Venezuela on August 10, 1987. On Wednesday, November 9, Ramos was Abducted by four men near his home and was taken off in an SUV. Thankfully, he was only held for 2 days and was freed on November 11.

The Significance of Black Girls Rock!

From civil rights to suffrage, from slavery to sexual exploitation, from royalty to inferiority, from the Motherland to the Founding Fathers, from strength to invisibility – Black Women have felt the pain. I dare say that the Black Women can empathize with the pain of every other race and gender in ways that every other race and gender cannot relate to them. How is that? They’ve been dealt harsh of blows from all angles.