AIDS threat still raging

LIKE THE TITLE character in "Precious," the new Lee Daniels' film, this 14-year-old Philadelphia girl had been raped by a relative and infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Michelle's family tree is multi-hued

Jenice Armstrong: First lady Michelle Obama' has white cousins? Oh, my gosh! Can you believe it? Well, yeah. Just about every black American I know has white relatives.

Women talk about sex

Jenice Armstrong: It was kind of like being at a Tupperware party but instead of the focus being on plastic containers, the conversation centered on sex.

Michelle's dating tips

FIRST LADY Michelle Obama graces the cover of the December issue of Glamour. What's even more interesting is that in the accompanying article, she gives dating advice. Given that all the single women I know who are searching for their own version of Barack Obama, her advice is worth paying attention to.

This World Series can divide households

Can't we all just get along? Not if one of us is from Philly and the other's from New York, with the Phils and Yankees squaring off tonight. Jenice Armstrong talks about how her house has been divided, and Stu Bykofsky, a Philly institution who grew up in the Bronx, has practically become a house divided against itself. Do you have New York friends, or a Yankees fan at home?

Cell phone was lifeline

THE LAST thing Sheila Armstrong remembers about the attack was the sight of her lover hoisting a vacuum over her.

More on hair topic

AFRICAN-AMERICAN women aren't the only ones who obsess about their hair. Here's what we heard from you.

Morehouse college says no to men in dresses

A MOREHOUSE MAN in a dress? Come again? When people think of a Morehouse man, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., filmmaker Spike Lee and other luminaries come to mind.

Haddonfield genealogist traces first lady's roots

Jenice Armstrong: Renowned genealogical sleuth Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak (yes, that's really her name) mostly has been able to exist just under the radar. That has changed.

'Good Hair' a gray area for black women

Armstrong: The subject of black women's hair is a tangle of issues relating to America's racial history, women's self-esteem, and mainstream acceptance.

School protesters doing it "for the children"

Were the protesters at yesterday's demonstration at B. Bernice Young Elementary School really there because of 'the children'?

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