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Amiri Baraka, famed African American literary giant, firebrand dies at 79

by Kwabena Opong Amiri Baraka, a major African American writer described as a primary intellectual architect of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s died January 9 at a Newark hospital aged 79. Cause of death has not been reported but Prof. Baraka has been hospitalized in intensive care since December 2013. Baraka closely identified […]

Military Officer Ordained Pastor

Rev. Eugene Yeboah Ansah, a commissioned officer and Chaplain in the United States Air Force Reserves was ordained a Pastor last month at the First Presbyterian Church, Irvington, New Jersey. A product of the University College of Education, Winneba, Ghana, Rev. Yeboah Ansah holds two graduate degrees, Master of Divinity and Master of Art Marriage […]

The Great Vitamin Scam

Paul A. Offit, This week, the Annals of Internal Medicine—one of the world’s leading medical journals—published three studies evaluating the benefits of vitamins and dietary supplements. The first study determined whether healthy people who received daily multivitamins had a lesser incidence of cancer or heart disease and whether they lived longer. The study was quite […]

A Few Drinks A Day Could Keep You From Getting Sick

by Lauren F Friedman, Business Insider New evidence suggests that a drink a day could help keep the doctor away — when it comes to cold and flu season, that is. While plenty of research has touted the benefits of resveratrol, an ingredient in red wine, a small study published Dec. 18 in the journal […]

Common Knee Surgery Does Very Little for Some, Study Suggests

By Pam Belluck Two Procedures, Same Result. A study compared a common surgical repair to the meniscus and a simulated surgery. The outcomes matched. A popular surgical procedure worked no better than fake operations in helping people with one type of common knee problem, suggesting that thousands of people may be undergoing unnecessary surgery, a […]

The 14 Most Stressful Jobs In America

by Vivian Giang We all think our jobs are stressful, but having a job on the extreme end of the spectrum can mean strict deadlines, brutal criticism, and even regularly having other people’s lives in your hands. To find out what the most stressful jobs in America are, we reached out to career information expert […]

The Ripple Effect of Foreclosures on Neighborhoods and Beyond: Part B

by Owusu Kizito, MBA/EA In “weak market” cities, even when some neighborhoods were reviving, overall housing demand remained weak and poverty levels were high. Foreclosures have hit these already-vulnerable regions hard. However, stronger market cities are also suffering. Take New York City for example, although somewhat cushioned by its high rate of renters and its […]

Christian Council of Ghana unsettling about events in their country

The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) a body of autonomous Christian Churches and Ecumenical organizations has come out with a comprehensive comunique that it hopes would stem some of the canker that is eating into the socio economical, political, and cultural fabric of Ghana. In the communique of December 2013, the CCG threw an open […]

Down Memory Lane: What Limann said after his one-year in office

  December 31, 2013 marked 32 years overthrow of President Hilla Limann by Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. Daily Graphic reproduces an exclusive interview granted to GBK Owusu, then editor of the Christian Messenger in 1980. GBK Owusu: Exactly a year ago you and your People’s National Party won an overwhelming majority in the general […]

Madiba Mandela: Modern Messiah

By M.O. Ene Life is so simple a story it is worth repeating whenever a great person departs our world: If you are born, you will die. This is the first law of nature, the ironic law of life. Life itself is a set of personalized variables bracketed in a basically dormant domain by two […]

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