By DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal reporters | In April 1968, when Keith Prewitt was 14, he and his friends were “out and about” in a part of downtown Memphis, Tenn., where they weren’t supposed to be. They started to get nervous when they saw a lot of fire trucks...
By East Norriton Bulldog Bulletin reporters | Erica Walker was pursuing a career as an artist when noisy neighbors on the floor above her apartment led to a dramatic switch. She’s now Dr. Erica Walker, still an artist but also an expert on the study of noise pollution...
By James Logan Healthy Eagle reporters | Trapeta B. Mayson is a poet who wants her work to be meaningful and helpful to other people. She was born in Liberia, in Africa, and came to Philadelphia when she was a child. In school, she says, she felt like an outsider and...
By William Cramp Fit Flyer reporters | Your neighbors, friends, and relatives aren’t the only ones who are members of your community. Baratunde Thurston says all other creatures belong to it, too. “What affects them affects us,” says Baratunde, who...
By Catholic Partnership Schools Healthy Courier reporters | As a young child, Arlene Notoro Morgan constantly asked questions. On Friday nights, she and her best friend even played “newspaper reporter.” “I was born a journalist,” says Ms. Morgan, who was a reporter...
By DePaul Catholic School Healthy Trailblazer Journal reporters | Kids can be philanthropists, too. All it takes is “someone who is willing to do for others, to care for others, to put others before themselves,” said Dr. Keith Leaphart, who has served as a board...
