Hello.  Please honour my request and apply due diligence to my need for prayers and intercession.  I am starting chemo on this coming Monday.  I will be taking treatment at the Siteman Cancer Center here in St. Louis.  It is located on the campus of Barnes-Jewish Hospital.  We were initially told that they were going to do a program of chemo involving a once every two weeks treatment in a three to four months on, four months off, manner.  The oncologists have settled on a method of treatment which is fairly new, has been used for 1,000+ persons, and is…

According to the United Nations report, Nigeria health system is in an inconsolable 187th out of 191 nations. Some studies also revealed that 23% of the global malaria burden came from Nigeria, and four other African countries; the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya. Ironically, Malaria is still one of the world's biggest killers, claiming about 655,000 lives yearly. Economically, malaria robs Africa of more than $12 billion productivity yearly and accounts for about 40% of health expenditure. President Jonathan's half brother, Chief Meni Innocent Jonathan, died of acute malaria and typhoid, on November 20, 2012 at the…

By realizing that anger is one of those things that all persons experience, we make haste to say that anger in itself doesn't have to dominate us without us complicating it. Anger happens to us all, but there are times when the anger or rage in people will certainly turn to be out of control. When anger goes too far, it frightens us, and then we start to look at ways to understand what specific anger is as well as how to manage our cultural lifestyle anger. On my mind now is the word "anger" (iwe, onuma, ahu ufu, obi…

by Dr. Wumi Akintide This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. From New York, USA, Dr. Wumi Akintide published this article on Sunday, July 1, 2012 to highlight AMERICAN HISTORY as it is SHAPED AND DEFINED BY FEW INDIVIDUALS, LEGISLATIONS AND SUPREME COURT DECISIONS, LIKE THE LATEST ON HEALTH CARE REFORM. I happen to have read this article with interest and I think you might like it for the significant insight it brought forward in the American contemporary presidential politics and political party complexes and controversies. What can Nigerian learn from this critical development?   According to Dr. Wumi, it matters very little what many of…

www.lavondastaples.com Everyone knows the popular image of a man is to be tall, dark and handsome. In America we also love "big." It is nearly a certainty that the tall man will be the first man of our nation. But that's only one side of the coin. Today, I'm thinking about the negative stereotypes laid upon the shoulders of big people. I'm a big person so I speak from experience. We are always at fault. If we get hit over the head with a bottle by a small person we should have just taken it like a man. In a…

www.lavondastaples.com The following was inspired by an article by George C. Curry:http://www.michronicleonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233:cdc-down-low-men-not-responsible-for-high-hiv-rates-among-black-women-&catid=33:top-news&Itemid=32#frmCommentPost The men are thieves in the temple.  The women are girls waiting to be chosen, waiting for that prince to come.  Giving everything and receiving nothing (in some lucky cases) and everything (wasted time, lost money, degradation, and disease).  In the end we all lose, as the family is the root unit of society and in Black populations indigenous to America, a Black man as husband and father is becoming extinct.  Lack of these roles does not teach a boy how to be a man and it does…

by La Vonda R. Staples www.lavondastaples.com             Since I have embarked on the study of Africans in America I've been shocked on rare occasions.  As Moms Mabley once said, "if you ever catch folks acting nice they're probably just not feeling well."  Very little amazes me.  I've recently been shocked to find out that there is a new condition among African Diaspora women.  It's called traction alopecia and it is caused by the combined use of chemical relaxers and braiding/weaves as the ONLY style of coiffure maintenance.  In this condition, women in their 20's are reporting to medical professionals with…

http://lavondastaples.blogspot.com/ I had to decide what kind of person I was going to be. How was I going to spend whatever time I have left in this life? Whether it was a minute or by some stroke of luck, another five decades. I had to make a decision regarding the person I wanted to see when I looked in the mirror. I don't know if I set anything in stone or even write on the pavement in chalk regarding a decision. The examination of life after life and living during life is quite enough at this time. I'm a very…