Topdog/Underdog: An American Cain and Abel Story
by M.L. Byrd
Topdog/Underdog is an American Cain and Abel story and an allegory of the twentieth and twenty-first century United States, which, to many, is bankrupt of promise and pits family member against family member in the search for an elusive and perhaps non-existent American dream.
The story focuses on two brothers whose history is [...]
African American Women and Heart Disease
According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. African American women are at even greater risk due to a combination of risk factors.
What is Coronary Artery Disease?
Coronary artery disease is the most common type of heart disease. It results from a strain [...]
Advertising visionary, Tom Burrell, to speak at VCU
photo by Victor Powell of Powell Photography, Inc.
By Mechelle Hankerson
While controversy in Richmond about slave burial grounds has come to a relative quiet since last year, author Tom Burrell wants to address a different type of slavery that he argues is still alive.
“Slavery came in two forms,” Burrell said last week, before arriving in Richmond. [...]
Markins’ walk-off homer seals victory for Trojans
By Jason Pompey
Tied 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth inning, Josh Markins (freshman/ Colonial Heights, VA) hit a walk-off homerun on the first pitch, giving the Trojans a 4-3 victory over the Battlers of Alderson-Broaddus College on Sunday, February 19 in Ettrick, VA. RHP Maso Cotton (sophomore/ Vauxhall, NJ) struckout 6 batters, throwing a [...]
The Problem with TOLERANCE
by Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Ph.D.
Founder and Artistic Director
The Conciliation Project
TOLERANCE is the practice or principle of permitting or enduring, for a time, a thing of which one disapproves or disagrees, such as social, ethnic, sexual, or religious beliefs and practices. (Oxford Dictionary)
By this definition of tolerance, the pursuit of diversity and equity becomes a daunting task. [...]
