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Not many in southern Africa would agree. But there are some signs of change.

"Although the number of people willing to stand publicly for lesbian and gay rights in Africa remains small, there is a growing number of us who are willing to be outspoken," said Goddard.

Goddard is a rare campaigner for gay rights in a region where hostility to homosexuality is embedded in law and where f...

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Houston, TX, July 6, 2006 - The portrayal of black women in popular music andvideos is too often degrading and the black community must find away to change these images, singer Jill Scott says.

The 34 year-old singer spoke Monday before a panel that discussed the issue took the stage at ...

CHENNAI: An effort to sensitise high and higher secondary school teachers to the `growing-up pains' of their adolescent students was started by the Chennai branch of the Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) on Wednesday.

The FPAI's project will focus on Chennai Corporation and State Government schools in K.K. Nagar, MGR Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Saligramam, Virugambakkam and Nesapakka...

Hilary Swank, who is divorcing actor-husband Chad Lowe, says Lowe's "substance-abuse problem'' was partly responsible for the breakup of their marriage, in an interview in Vanity Fair magazine.

"I knew something was happening, but I didn't know what,'' the Oscar-winning actress tells the magazine in its August issue. "When I found out, it was such a shock because I never thought he...

LOS ANGELES - Some pop stars want fame and money. "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks just wants to ride the tour bus.

Hicks gets to do just that on a cross-country tour that kicked off Wednesday in Manchester, N.H. The tour, which reunites Hicks with castmates from the fifth edition of the hit Fox show, ends

"I've always wanted to be on a bus. ... My home has been on the road sinc...

NEW YORK -- Hilary Swank, who is divorcing actor-husband Chad Lowe, says Lowe's "substance-abuse problem" was partly responsible for the breakup of their marriage, in an interview in Vanity Fair magazine.

"I knew something was happening, but I didn't know what," the Oscar-winning actress tells the magazine in its August issue. "When I found out, it was such a shock because I never thoug...

A reader alerted me to the Web site of St. Joan of Arc Church in the St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese.

The site is loaded with left-wing material, but this item caught my eye: The parish's weekly Bible study group held a discussion on a book titled Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart D. Ehrman.

...Since God did not see fit to preserve the origi...

Christine Geiger (from left), Micha Merrick and Patika Starr. View a larger version .

Where: SoulFlower Studios, 318 S. Greene St., Greensboro

Patika Starr and her two close friends, Christine Geiger and Micha Merrick, have turned these childhood toys into erotic props that give the sizzle to their new group know...