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...
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....
In this month’s issue of ColorsVA magazine, we talk about the work young adults are doing to influence positive change throughout the Roanoke Valley. There are bad myths regarding the traits of millennials,...
Healthcare and nutrition is an industry that is continuing to grow rapidly in the United States. The Center for Disease Control reported that almost 40 percent of adults over the age of 20 are overweight...
I was a little girl when we arrived in the United States. I had just turned seven and my parents had told my siblings and me that we could each take two dolls or stuffed animals with us because we were...
On the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and the 53rd anniversary of the slaying of Emmitt Till, there reaps a resurgence of the so called “America Dream” in retrospect to the infamy...
November is National Family Caregiver Awareness Month In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed the first Family Caregiver Awareness Proclamation. Every president since that time has followed his lead, by issuing...
