Five years ago, then-Bibb County judge Verda Colvin gave an impassioned lecture in her courtroom to at-risk youth, telling them to “stop acting like trash.” The speech quickly made Colvin an internet sensation because it was captured on video and went viral. On...
Microbiome. It is the new catch phrase, the talk of the town. Some people refer to it as gut bugs, but that is not entirely correct because it’s not just gut bugs, it is an entire community of microscopic organisms that live on and in our body, protecting us from...
I have been doing osteoporosis screening and education for many years. Once again it is the month to focus on prevention of osteoporosis. As I began to write this article, I began to review the statements produced by the national organizations focused on this...
Claudette Colvin was 15 in 1955. She may have been young, but she knew her constitutional rights, and on March 2 that year, she stood up for her rights on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama when she refused to give her seat to a white woman at the bus driver’s command. Two...
Lucille Commadore was born in Tylertown, Miss., on Aug. 12, 1934. Her parents, Curtis and Amy Commadore, were sharecroppers, and her mother worked as a housekeeper. Lucille stopped attending school after the eighth grade so she could help them in the fields. In 1953,...
Covid deaths are surging. We see the numbers increasing on the news. Yet the realities of these numbers remain abstract until one has to deal with the loss of life of a loved one or severe illness themselves. The details surrounding death are not familiar to most...
Are you one of the many women across the country who is delaying health screenings due to the threat of COVID-19? Bone density screening may be one of those tests that seems insignificant during this challenging time. Osteoporosis is a condition that does not manifest...
You may not have been aware that October 20th is World Osteoporosis Day. What does this have to do with you? You might be one of the 10 million Americans who have osteoporosis or one of another 44 million individuals with low bone density. Both conditions increase...
“There’s someone here! Oh my God! They got Amanda!” It is every parent’s nightmare—their child snatched by kidnappers while they are powerless to stop them. It was also the plot of 2008’s Hollywood thriller, Taken. Brian Mills, played by Liam Neeson, listened...
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy whose power is in the voices of its people at the ballot box. Citizens in many Georgia communities have faced prohibitively long lines, some several hours long, at polling places throughout the state in...