When you see Wendell Ball walking about town wearing his Pittsburgh Steelers hat, he’s laughing, joking and encouraging everyone around him. Ball has been an important figure in the City of Roanoke...
While Roanoke is slowly becoming a hub for community organization and social change, Sherman Lea believes there still is growth to come in the mental health field. Lea is the founder and executive director...
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James A. Baldwin. This famous quote can bring either comfort or concern...
It has been an unsettling year. The issues we have witnessed in 2018, from our government to our community have been quite alarming. The rise in racial tensions with an increase in hate crimes, mass shootings...
"I’ve learned not to be cliquish, because it tends to put a negative on what we do here in Roanoke. The unity needs to be shown in the community. That means you include as many...
Seasonal depression is a real thing even if we refuse to admit it. We get depressed with the overwhelming notions of life. It does not help that day light is shortened and we spend more evenings...
The time has come. It’s officially shopping season. As soon as we finished eating Thanksgiving dinner and dessert, we were out, headed to the mall. Department stores and shopping malls began opening...
by Guest Blogger Alexis Amos “I am the type of calm I wish I really knew.” Wise words echoed the room from young poet, Ashley Rhame. Ashley is a native to Roanoke, VA and has found and crafted...
There is significant importance to voting, though it may be hard to see at first. The dismantling is in progress. The fight we are fighting, as citizens of the United States is exhausting and soul churning....
It seems popular today to find a scapegoat for everything wrong with this country. The latest scapegoat is actually the generation that is set to inherit the nation for all its pros and woes – millennials....
