As health groups across the country ramp up education and fundraising campaigns for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, traditionally observed in October, new research has surfaced on the occurrence and su
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If you’re looking for a place to go on a day off from work, consider a visit to the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Inaugurated six years ago under the affiliations program of the Smithsonian Instit
BY Ron Scott
U.S. history, I’m afraid, was never my strong suit — u ntil I visited Charleston, S.C. American history is omnipresent in this southern city of 107,000, where you can’t help but get a crash cour
BY Lori Weisberg
Sometime in the early to mid-1990s, a new kind of hot spot exploded on the social scene — the wine bar. Opening mostly in metropolitan areas — although bistros and cafés with a focus on wines had
BY Clarence V. Reynolds
If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, it would be a good idea for you to start monitoring your blood pressure at home, says a recent joint statement from the American Heart Association,
BY Ven Griva
For 36 years, the theater appetite of Brooklyn, New York’s Bedford Stuyvesant community has been satisfied by The Billie Holiday Theatre, a nonprofit organization located at 1368 Fulton Street, insi
The infamous “Page Six” of The New York Post often recounts the escapades of celebrities living it up in New York City’s Meatpacking District, the stretch along the Hudson River from Gansevoort
BY Theresa Racine
A century or so ago, Atlantic City reigned proudly as the queen of the Jersey Shore and as America’s premier convention destination. In more recent years, it has had a less glamorous image: as a day
BY Lillian Africano
Papa Konare Diagne had no plans to open a restaurant when he decided to leave his home in Senegal for the United States in 1990. In fact, back home, where he worked as a law clerk, he had no deep desi
BY Clarence V. Reynolds
Along comes more evidence that suggests you will live longer and more productively if you get up off your sofa and exercise moderately. A large study, presented at the 2008 American Stroke Association
BY Ven Griva