Kennedy, a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association Search Your Heart Program, is the founder and president of Power Living Enterprises Inc. in New York City and the founder of Ta Yoga.

With a patient list that includes Olympic and professional athletes, F. Kennedy Gordon, M.D., has very little room for mistakes in his diagnoses and treatments.

Thirty-six years after Title IX of the Education Amendment became a law requiring equal participation for men and women in collegiate sports, colleges and universities are challenged with assuring the participation of minority female athletes.

Lately, Alfred C. Winkler, M.D., has been frequenting barbershops in New York City’s minority communities. His mission: turn barbers into educators who can teach clients the importance of early prostate-cancer detection through screenings.

Employment gaps on résumés stand out as a disadvantage to jobseekers.

The fallout from frozen credit markets permeated all sectors of developed economies and has spread to the developing world.

In 1968, an ecologist from Texas, Garrett Hardin, published what is considered the classic paper on the dilemma of individual gain versus community gain. Published in the journal Science, Hardin’s paper, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” describes a scenario in which individuals acting alone in their own self-interest ultimately destroy a shared resource.

Peter Justen, president and chief executive of MyBizHomepage (www.mybizhomepage.com), a Web-based firm that helps small and emerging businesses to most efficiently keep track of their bottom line, argues that a weak economy may be just the environment for starting a business.

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all the world’s people.

Chicken Little was right. The sky was falling for most retirement accounts in 2008. But that doesn’t mean Little, lead character in a fable about a chicken who believes the sky is falling, should become one of your most trusted financial advisers.

In 1959, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was fifty years old. At the time, one of its preeminent founders, W.E.B. Du Bois, was 91 and traveling in China.

Experts now agree that the U.S. economy is in recession and likely to remain so this year; and most of us are monitoring the health of our bank accounts and the security of our jobs. Few of us, however, are paying attention to how the state of our health impacts the economy and vice versa.

Kathleen Zelman, WebMD’s director of nutrition, and Linda Copp, a nutrition consultant in private practice, say the following crucial first steps need to be taken to transition to a healthier lifestyle:

Blacks waiting for a liver transplant used to be more likely to die compared to whites. Now they have the same chance of getting a life-saving organ under a nationwide system that puts the sickest patients first, a new study found.

Since its launch in March 2007, video-streaming site Hulu has become a popular place to catch TV shows, video clips and movies for free on the Web.

Through the open doors of the Take the Lead Dance Studio, strains of Nina Simone’s “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl” sashay out into the rain-splattered streets of West Philadelphia. Inside, under the light confetti strewn from a silver disco ball, about 60 people pair off — most just long enough to test out their kinetic compatibility and practice a few moves.

The Africa Travel Association, a New York nonprofit promoting tourism to Africa and intra-Africa travel and partnership, holds its second annual U.S.-Africa Seminar in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19–20.

While some people enjoy the camaraderie of working out at a fitness club, others prefer to exercise in the privacy of their own home. Those who are buying fitness equipment for their personal use should visit a specialty fitness retailer.

In Zereoué’s homeland of Côte d’Ivoire, traditional cooking usually consists of some kind of stew with vegetables and braised poultry or fish.