Listen to Beethoven’s famed Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47, commonly called the Kreutzer Sonata after the French violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer. It is sometimes assumed that Beethoven originally dedicated the sonata to Kreutzer. In reality, Kreutzer never could perform the sonata. Instead, he reportedly told Beethoven the piece was “impossible to play” — ...

Improvements for patients and carers In an announcement this week, the Care Services Minister Phil Hope said that this new organisation will ensure that national mental health policies bring about real improvements for patients and carers.‘The National Mental Health Development Unit will make sure that mental health services around the country continue to go from strength ...

http://www.blackcommentator.com/213/213_along_the_color_line_global_inequality_marable_ed_bd.html In the past 20 years in the United States, where deregulation and privatization has been carried to extremes, we are witnessing a phenomenon that the media has described as “the very rich” leaving “the merely rich" behind. The exponential growth of America’s “super-rich” is a direct product of the near-elimination of capital gains taxes, and the ...

  Senegal-Bonus for rice farmers For Senegalese rice farmers like Pape Alioune Seck the food crisis is a blessing in disguise in a country that until recently imported three-quarters of this staple from Asia."Two years ago, the Senegalese rediscovered rice from the river valley," said the 32-year-old rice farmer. The change is answering the dreams of the domestic ...

John Alcindor (1873-1924) was a physician who was instrumental in the formation of the African Progress Union (APU). He was born in Trinidad and attended St Mary's College, a private school, in Port of Spain. Alcindor won one of the four Island Scholarships to attend medical school at Edinburgh University, Scotland from which he graduated ...

DR. ALEXA I. CANADY (1950-) is the first black female neurosurgeon. Canady was born November 7, 1950, to Clinton and Elizabeth Canady. Her father was a dentist, and her mother served as president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, in addition to other civic affairs. The family lived just outside Lansing, Michigan. Canady and her brother were ...

Young and healthy African-American men have higher central blood pressure and their blood vessels are stiffer compared to their white counterparts, signs that the African American men are developing hypertension early and with little outward sign, according to a new study. While the study found that central blood pressure the pressure in the aorta, near ...

Watch the debate regarding whether a United states of Africa is Possible or even Desirable.

The Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force delivered its first report to the community, one year after releasing a major report that outlined more than 30 recommendations for action.

Mary Seacole is, without a doubt one of the unsung heroines of British History. She was one of the two famous women who aided British troops in the Crimea.

A former Royal Marine who claims he suffered violent racial abuse while a member of the forces was barred by the High Court from suing the Ministry of Defence for pounds 750,000 damages yesterday. Deputy judge John Griffith Williams ruled that Mark Parchment had left it too long to bring an action after he went on ...