There is a need for more education in the black community about HIV and AIDS that is is not a “White Gay Male” disease. HIV and AIDS know no barriers between race, ethnicity, social, or economic levels. There is a need for HIV and AIDS education in public high schools.

 Is governement-run healthcare the solution to fewer Americans having to live without health insurance? Here are the facts, decide for yourself.
 

As the rest of the world is finally becoming informed, many of us are already aware that Clark Atlanta University is having financial trouble. What can be done to get us out of this trouble and to prevent it from happening in the future?
 
More than 100 faculty members were laid off. Of all of the viable options, was this appropiate?
 
Why is CAU and other HBCUs having financial difficulty? Is anyone coming to our rescue?
 

Clark Atlanta University is not the only school in need of financial assistance.  In the Atlanta University Center Morehouse and Spelman College have also endured faculty and staff layoffs in order to keep the institutions afloat.
 
CAU representatives say the school is still financially sound, but the layoffs were necessary to keep them through the semester.  The government has thrown so much money at private companies, but what about the business of education?  Is it important to feed the country knowledge in order keep it growing?  Is it an obligation of the country to lend monetary support to schools private or public--especially if private companies receive funding?  

With the inaguration only two or three weeks behind us, pundits and politicians are already urging us to take our eyes off the health care football while they "fix" the economy.  Promises to enact a universal national health care plan, only a few months old, are being forgotten or openly taken back due to supposed "economic necessities". 
 
But an authoritative study by the California Nurses Organization details the economic impact of enacting single payer Medicare-For-All national health care:  2.6 million new jobs, $100 billion annually in the pockets of employees, $317 billion to employers and $44 billion in tax revenues to hard-pressed local governments.  The choice between enacting health care and saving the economy may be a false one.  Fixing health care may be the best medicine for the economy.

 
There is a severe problem with alcoholism in the African-American community that is not being properly addressed.  The effects of this problem are devastating and worst of all, to many it is not a problem. It's time that people talk and learn about this silent killer.
 
 

Among African-Americans college drinking is high, but not as drastic as white schools.