By: Kam Williams Born in New Orleans on September 23, 1979, Anthony Mackie attended the Julliard School of Drama. He was discovered after receiving rave reviews for playing Tupac Shakur in the off-Broadway play [...]

NASHVILLE, TN — The 80,000 square-foot campus center under construction at Meharry Medical College is a boon not only for students, but for the entire North Nashville Community. More than 1,000 people will be [...]

Amlan Ganguly empowers children to become activists and educators, with powerful results. Using street theater, puppetry, and dance as their weapons, the children in Calcutta’s slums have cut their neighborhoods’ malaria and diarrhea rates [...]

NASHVILLE, TN— Dr. Rani G. Whitfield, M.D., is one of Meharry Medical College’s many crown jewel graduates. He’s a board certifed family physician with a Certicate of Added Qualication in sports medicine, and has [...]

NASHVILLE, TN — Medical and dental simulation is increasingly playing a more important role in the way doctors, dentists and other health professionals are trained. Because modern health care is constantly evolving, and new [...]

Fisk University is growing its online education footprint. The institution will soon debut its newest online program that will focus on administrative jobs in the medical field. The seven-tiered program will become the eighth [...]

by David T. Baker Special to the NNPA from The Louisiana Weekly Boy meets girl. Boy likes girl, now boy has to meet the family. It’s an age-old story and the plot of the [...]

by Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Good Morning America” host Robin Roberts has been named the most trusted woman in television, according to a new Reader’s Digest survey released this week. [...]

By: Janice Malone Nashville is blessed with such abundance of music talent, and not just in the genre of country and gospel music. The city’s pop and R&B scene is literally popping at the [...]

Following the March 26 announcement of Belmont University’s new Bridges to Belmont program, the campus’ dining services provider Sodexo offered a gift of 20 meal plans to support the initiative. The Bridges to Belmont [...]