A community organization founded by one of the oldest Black fraternities, Rho Omega and Friends is behind Louisiana’s largest and longest running Juneteenth festival that also serves as a fundraiser to help send local youth to college. Rho Omega and Friends will present the 36th annual Let the Good Times Roll Festival honoring the culture, music, art, fashion and...
Throughout my journeys I am thinking and will continue to think about not just the journey ,but creation and the human conditions. We as a society do not get talked about the conditions and thinking unless you are a scientist or a philosopher. Others just go about and wonder or take what has been told...
When Lowndes County elementary school teacher Shawntay Gray began brainstorming ideas to take her love for teaching outside the traditional classroom, she envisioned ways to inspire children through creativity and new opportunities they may not have access to at home and in their communities. Looking back on her own childhood, Gray said she recalled how...
What is your Responsibility? What is the response we should have? My response to this question is science and love. Science is about the pursuit of knowledge and understanding through observation, experimentation, and analysis. It is a discipline that is grounded in empirical evidence and relies on the scientific method to test and refine our...
Reggae and Soca beats, the scent of mouthwatering food and bold, vibrant Caribbean colors of red, green and yellow infuse the air with an intoxicating feast for the senses at the annual Caribbean Food and Music Festival hosted by the Central Alabama Caribbean American Organization (CACAO). It’s a scene that CACAO and festival founder Pauline...
inCity Magazine is thrilled to announce its partnership with WAV Music Festival as a Media Partner for the upcoming music event taking place on Saturday, May 27th, 2023 at the Atlanta Underground. The WAV Music Festival is a celebration of culture and sound, featuring a lineup of genre-defining DJs and a diverse range of music...
For U.S. Army major and fitness coach Dewayne Webb, fitness encompasses balancing many dimensions of our lives. Webb, founder of the Christian-based nonprofit All About Fitness (AAF), leads free bootcamp-style workouts nine days a week to inspire others to live physically fit lives, but his participants are receiving more than just a workout. Since 2014, Webb has been encouraging...
I am in such a quagmire with my brain and my heart when it comes to the issues of America and the directions it is moving. I will not stipulate the reasons for this because the list is getting longer like elephant leaves. Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense for several reasons, but primarily to advocate...
What Will It Take? Political leaders are not fully recognizing the health and disease in populations of what continuous racial systematic trauma. Recently I was driving my partners vehicle. A police officer pulled me over to ask me “where I was going”. He must of ran the tags to see that the car was registered...
We have known for decades and even centuries what neglect can do to development. Whatresearches have recently discovered is that isolation is a perceive factor also and can affect thebrain development.The brain’s basic architecture is laid down genetically before birth, and individual experiencesafter birth shape what happens to our brain circuitry. The input the brain...