Africa Rural Connect (ARC), a program of the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA), is an online global collaboration network, where knowledgeable people work together to communicate and respond to the needs of African farmers. Watch the video and learn how to get involved!

On Friday, August 1, 2014 at the start of South African Women’s Month, hundreds of volunteers participated in the 8th annual Silent Protest. Organized for the first time by AHF, the protest aimed to highlight rape survivors’ right to Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) in order to prevent HIV sero-conve

Forest Whitaker serves the President of the US.A new trailer for the upcoming historical drama from Precious director Lee Daniels. The film tells the story of Cecil Gaines, an African-American who eyewitnesses major events of the 20th century during his tenure as a White House butler. Starring Fores...

Elisa Esposito was rendered mute by a neck injury she had sustained as an infant, and communicates using sign language. Living alone in an apartment above a movie theater, she works as a janitor at a secret government laboratory in Baltimore during the Cold War in the early 1960s. Her two closest fr...

Thank you Ray Chew and Vivian Chew for joining us for Shabbat last Friday and closing our service with these poignant words and music, helping us understand how our brothers and sisters from the African American community feel. May we all be a bridge over troubled waters.

“People are still getting kicked out of their homes and parents are still disowning their kids. My mother still loves me but it wasn’t easy at first. And she said some things that she apologized for. She only knows what she knows from the community she grew up in, which is very similar to how I grew

Mean Girls has been nominated for best musical and a total of 12 Tony Award nominations. Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity

Numbering as few as 250 individuals, the rarest of African apes has scarcely been observed in the wild, even by those committed to studying their behavior. But now, for one of the first times ever, the Cross River gorilla's haunting beauty and incredible strength have been caught on film in the wild...

Although we are lucky to be in our lovely environment in the Pines, we are aware of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for social justice by African Americans in the United States. Certainly, many of us can remember the hard-won battles that we fought in the LGBTQ community for safety and...

Prince Harry has brought back memories of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, after joining teams clearing landmines in Mozambique. Diana weas very outspoken about the elimination of the land minds in African countries.