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Wells Fargo, Gatorade and Paula’s Choice to Unlock Opportunities in Passion-Point Marketing at #PortadaLA, Early Bird Expires Thursday!

Wells Fargo, Gatorade and Paula’s Choice to Unlock Opportunities in Passion-Point Marketing at #PortadaLA, Early Bird Expires Thursday! Editorial Staff @portada_online Portada Los Angeles (March 15, Hotel Loews, Santa Monica) will focus on how brands including Wells Fargo, Gatorade and Paula's Choice drive growth in multicultural America through the passion points of sport, wellness, soccer and entertainment. In addition to obtaining key insights from brand innovators, attendees will have the opportunity to interact with a wide choice of brand and media agency decision makers in three-eight minute one-on-one meetings. Get your tickets at early bird price until this Thursday January 31!

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Beyond the Rhetoric: The Obama Years – Scandal and Corruption, Final

The Obama Administration was taking form. Our new Attorney General Eric Holder was instantly mired in scandal with the Fast and Furious debacle. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State seemed rather tame but that was just the quiet before the storm. One afternoon Minyon Moore from the Dewey Square Group (one of the Podesta companies) brought me two complimentary tickets to the kickoff of the new Clinton Global Initiative.

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Simeon Booker to Be Memorialized at Washington National Cathedral January 29

A memorial service for trailblazing civil rights journalist Simeon Booker will be held on Monday, January 29, 2018, his wife, Carol McCabe Booker, has announced. The service is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Booker, a journalistic icon, died Dec. 10 at the age of 99.

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School Shooting Highlights Tough Gap Between Warning About And Eliminating a Threat

News emerged in the wake of the nation's latest school shooting that the FBI had received warnings about the suspect prior to the deadly incident in Florida.

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3 Foods Your Heart Will Love

Heart disease is the leading killer of all Americans, but African Americans are hit hardest. Heart disease develops earlier in African Americans than in white Americans and deaths from heart disease are higher. Moreover, the life expectancy of African Americans is 3.4 years shorter than that of whites, because of a higher rate of heart attacks, sudden cardiac arrest, heart failure and strokes than white Americans.

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New Survey Reveals Hispanic-Americans' Attitudes Toward Health

Hispanic-Americans are less likely to seek health screenings or preventive care compared with their black and white peers, according to a new survey that provides a detailed and ongoing assessment of the Hispanic community's attitudes toward health care.

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Actor Cress Williams: The Importance of Playing a Black Superhero

Actor Cress Williams’ 20-plus year career acting in Hollywood has had its share of highlights, including regular and recurring roles on a number of television series such as Beverly Hills 90210, Veronica Mars, ER, Grey’s Anatomy, Prison Break, Friday Night Lights, Living Single (you might remember him as Queen Latifah‘s love interest, “Scooter”) and even a leading role on Hart of Dixie. The talented Williams will return to The CW this midseason to star in the Black superhero series based on the comic-book, Black Lightening.

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The Office for Civil Rights Needs to Listen to Teachers Like Me on School Discipline

As a school-based social worker for over eight years, I know firsthand how punitive discipline practices impact students both in the short and long term. In the short term, students are often harshly punished-missing valuable instructional hours and, more often that not, fast-tracked to special education services. I've also seen long-term impacts in which students begin to view themselves as bad, aggressive and hopeless.

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Chef Babette Davis: Making 67 Look Simply Delicious!

One look at Chef Babette Davis and you would think she is young, energetic and full of life–oh and one who has a great body too. Well, at least that’s what I thought when I looked at her. But when I saw her recipes and read up on her, I realized just how amazing this woman is. She is a world-class chef, fitness expert and motivational speaker who runs the successful Inglewood, California restaurant, Stuff I Eat, and produces online cooking classes while participating in health summit and speaking engagements all around the country. And she does all of this while looking half her age.

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Looking Diabetes in the Eye During Diabetes Awareness Month

Eye Exam Can Detect Illness

When an eye doctor peers into the back of your eye, a diabetes diagnosis could be staring back. An eye examination can be the first step in detecting diabetic retinopathy, a condition where high blood sugar damages blood vessels in the light-sensitive part of the eye, the retina. Bleeding, swelling and scarring in the retina can cause permanent vision loss.

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Toyota Corolla iM: The Ideal Merger

If given the choice between something small or big, most will pick the larger. We have been trained to believe that bigger means better. However, bigger can also be wasteful. Size is everything. Our eyes are sometimes bigger than what we can hold and we dispose of the excess. Finding the perfect size that is right between too little and too big to get that happy medium is challenging. Somehow Toyota has managed to make the ideal merger in the compact car, Toyota Corolla iM 5-door hatchback.

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What Would ‘King’ Do In A Global COVID-19 Pandemic?

“This is our country; this is our house,” one riot- er told a reporter while storming the US Capitol last week in support of President Donald Trump. its shingle covering.”

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Biden's Inauguration Offers New Hope and New Energy

On Monday, we marked Dr. Martin Luther King's 91st birthday; on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as president, promising change after a dark period of division. Dr. King's relationship with John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson offers instructive lessons for today's movement for justice.

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Amanda Gorman Calls On America To “Leave Behind A Country Better Than The One We Were Left” In Powerful Poem

Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, challenged Americans Wednesday to “leave behind a country better than the one we were left” and unify together as she delivered a stirring inauguration poem.

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George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Would Set National Standards for Police Behavior

Even as Derek Chauvin is on trial for the murder of George Floyd, police 10 miles away fatally shot an African American man, Duante Wright, after pulling him over for an alleged traffic violation. That triggered protests that led to confrontations with police, despite Wright's family pleading for non-violence. The Washington Post reports that 985 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year, with blacks more than two times as likely to be shot and killed than whites. Fundamental reform is long overdue.

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Georgians Will Have a Clear Choice On Jan. 5

Leave it to Donald Trump to run brazen subversion -- refusal to accept the decision of the voters in the presidential election -- as a clown show, marked by wingbat lawyers, delusional tweets, and hailstorms of lies. The noise, however, should not delude us: Trump is leading an American counter-reformation right to the edge of secession, if not beyond. And at the core of this is America's continued struggle with race.

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COVID-19 Is a Global Threat That Requires a Global Mobilization

India is now ground zero for COVID-19. Saturday, it suffered a new record of more than 335,000 new infections and over 4,000 deaths in one day, while hospitals run out of oxygen and beds, and as morgues and crematoria are overwhelmed. In total, a staggering 22.6 million people have been infected, with 246,116 deaths.

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Should Women Skip Panties In The Summer?

Are you thinking about doing away with panties this summer? Some of us may think that this question is still up for debate, but scientifically there are real health benefits to both wearing and not wearing panties during the warmer months. Need to settle the debate once and for all? Here’s the rundown:

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COVID-19 Is A Risk To Humanity

COVID-19 knows no national boundaries. It does not discriminate by race or religion or ideology. The pandemic poses a threat to humanity, not to any one country. Our response must be as encompassing as the threat: we cannot end the threat here without ending it everywhere.

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America Leads the World in Violence

Gun violence spiked across the country in 2020, the most violent years in decades. 19,000 were killed in shootings, the highest death toll in 20 years (and that does not include gun suicides). Mass shootings -- defined as four or more shot in an incident -- also rose drastically to over 600.