When gifts seem to say: You’re old, fat and hairy

Some holiday gifts are forgotten even before the wrapping paper’s been recycled. Others, like the one Heather Ryan-Sigler received years ago, tend to stick in your craw.

Lions get a personal tour of Leader Dogs’ kennels — by Leader Dog

A yellow Labrador retriever greeted each of the 25 Royal Oak Lions Club members and families as they arrived to tour Leader Dogs for the Blind facilities that their donations helped build.

Coming Home-- A Vietnam Story

Considering the deep and lasting imprint the Vietnam War has had on this country’s collective psyche, it is difficult to believe that a whole generation of Americans knows little to nothing of that war other than what it is taught—either in school or at the knee of one of the now aging veterans who served in the military during that time.

U.S. Muslims prep for Islamic holiday around 9/11

The lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays is creating a potential for misunderstandings or worse in a year when American Muslims are already confronting a spike in assaults on their faith and protests against new mosques.

Announcing Thomas Blackshear's Wise Men Figurines - Two New Additions To His Ebony Visions (TM) African-American ...

Ready for order at CollectorHub.com, Blackshear's newest Nativity figurines complete his artistic renditions of the Magi. Ripon, CA (BlackNews.com) -- Bearing gifts from lands afar, Thomas Blackshear's intricately detailed depictions of the Three Wise Men arrive with much anticipation.