Americans of different races have long worshipped in different churches, but in the past few years, that's been changing. About one in five churchgoing Americans now attend multiracial churches, where no more than 80 percent of the congregation...
Hope was the main word at the "Hope Still Floats" dinner, fashion show and silent auction benefit for the Yavapai Family Advocacy Center (YFAC) on Saturday, Aug. 15. Showing off fashions from resale stores around the area in a "re-fashion...
A new study shows how adverse experiences within the first six years of life lead to higher levels of childhood internalizing symptoms and variations in brain growth in adolescent males. Internalizing symptoms include the development of mental...
Prison isn’t the most intellectually stimulating environment, but the dimmest corners of the criminal justice system may actually be a perfect place to liberate an otherwise wasted mind. A new initiative by the White House to issue...
It’s the start of the school year, which for me is the true New Year. I always feel like I should begin a new venture in late August or early September, or at least buy a spiral-bound notebook. I think it’s the effect of all that...
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to Director of National Drug Control Policy Michael Botticelli about how the plan to tackle heroin abuse shifts focus from punishment to treatment. [To hear the story or view the transcript go to http://www.npr.org/2015/08/17/...focuses-on-treatment ]
Olivia was a preteen when her mother died of ovarian cancer. One year later, she was raped. When Olivia reached her 20s, her doctor began encouraging her to have regular cervical smear tests . But Olivia found pap smears...
When Sal Martinez, whose full name is Azael “Sal” Martinez Sonoquí, was sworn in on August 9, 2015, for his second term as a Los Angeles County Probation Commissioner, he insisted on having the ceremony take place...
While high-end firms that employ the most well-educated and well-paid U.S. workers compete in a benefits arms race, too many working women are forced to skimp or skip out on maternity leave because of the United States’ lack of paid leave...
A few months ago our Northeast Michigan Trauma-Informed Community Action Group sent out the ACE questions through a survey monkey link to our regional community through a free local advertiser. We didn't receive many responses until the...
Silicon Valley is great at disrupting business norms — except when it comes to its own racial and gender diversity problem . In an open letter last week, the Rev. Jesse Jackson sounded the alarm yet again. He...
If you’ve got some time on your hands and a yearning for school district data, check out a new tool announced Monday by the California Department of Education that tracks how well districts and schools have done from 2012 to 2014 in...
College was never much of an option for most students in this tiny town of 1,200 located in the woods of the Manistee National Forest. Only 12 of the 32 kids who graduated high school in 2005 enrolled in college. Only two of those have gotten...
Young people with health problems left uncared for in adolescence face higher risks of leading unhealthy lives as adults, a new study finds. A study of 14,800 people found that the odds of adverse adult health conditions were 13 percent to 52...
Following the recent mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina , on June 17, 2015—a racially motivated act of domestic terrorism—President Barack Obama delivered a sobering address to the American people. With a heavy heart,...