A larger percentage of black fathers help their children with their homework compared to white and Hispanic fathers, according a study released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Andy Shallal glanced around the room full of D.C. voters, finally attentive, and then back at the two teenagers who wanted to first read poetry.
Today a special on “kids for cash,” the shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities.
The John J. Moran Prison in Rhode Island is one of the last places one would expect to find a thriving meditative community.
There are 2.3 million people in US prisons in conditions that are often inhumane and at worst life threatening.
SAN JUAN – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it addressed significant threats, while “optimizing resources and building partnerships” in the Caribbean last year.
Washington DC’s Department of Human Services has a really big problem. The city’s population of homeless families has skyrocketed this winter, filling up every one of the 285 shelter rooms at the former DC General Hospital and forcing officials to place hundreds of families in hotels around the city and in Maryland.
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is yet another victim of the war on drugs. Prohibition is not working. It is time to try something new.
Jennifer Pruitt can hardly remember a time when she felt safe. She says her father beat her until her eyes were blackened. He beat her mother and brothers. He drank and crashed their family cars, she says, and then he came home and beat them some more.
US President Barack Obama will host a summit with African leaders in August in a bid to strengthen trade and investment ties with the continent.
Negro Cocaine “Fiends” Are a New Southern Menace. That was the headline of an article I came across while doing research for my PhD in 1996.
President Obama made no mention of the war on drugs in his State of the Union speech, nor its role in both international and domestic crises, signaling that despite marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado…