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Cosmetics Company Owner Loves the Skin Blacks are in
Women of color know their skin is a little different and many mainstream products don’t seem to address the issues they typically have.  For 20 years, one man has been catering to the skin needs of women, men and even babies. Iheatu Obioha started Bluefield, a skin-care manufacturing company, in 1989.

9/11 Memorial at World Trade Center Site
Design Honors Hundreds of Meaningful ‘Adjacency Requests’ from  Victims’ Next-of-Kin. In the weeks and months following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, a Statue of Liberty replica stood honor guard outside a firehouse on Eighth Avenue and West 48th Street in Manhattan. The firehouse was Engine 54/Ladder 4/Battalion 9, which lost 15 of their men at the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Volunteering to Help Others Could Lead to Better Health
WASHINGTON – People who volunteer may live longer than those who don’t, as long as their reasons for volunteering are to help others rather than themselves, suggests new research published by the American Psychological Association. This was the first time research has shown volunteers’ motives can have a significant impact on life span.