Success//Addiction//Redemption

By Stuart Harper

My story starts with success. I had a beautiful family (wife of 10+ years and three beautiful healthy children), newly built custom home on 5 acres of wooded land, new cars in the driveway and owned my own specialty sporting goods store. I lived a very lavish lifestyle. My life was perfect in the eyes of society, however inside I knew something was wrong. I was never satisfied, I always wanted more. I didn’t know what I wanted more of; I just knew I wanted more. READ MORE...

Students Get a Glimpse of Poverty

This year's incoming University at Buffalo Master's of Social Work class had a unique chance to imagine what it is like to live one month of poverty during the school's first-ever "poverty simulation" incorporated in the school's student orientation that took place today, Friday August 27.

About 75 master's students entering UB's School of Social Work curriculum will be part of the role-playing exercise simulating the plight of 26 different families facing poverty. READ MORE...

The Need for Speedy Justice

With the funerals now complete for the four innocent victims of last week's massacre, what Buffalo needs more than anything is speedy justice in this still looming case of four reckless murders that taunted city streets last weekend. The city and its residents are now hanging in the balance as police and detectives continue looking at large for the person responsible for this senseless act of violence is still loose.

The reward has been uped to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of the individual responsible, READ MORE...

Pridgen Issues 10 Commandments to Stop Violence

Pastor Darius Pridgen of True Bethel Baptist Church located on E. Ferry St. and with a satellite campus on Swan St. in Buffalo responded to the recent shootings that took place outside of City Grill this past weekend. Responding with the 10 Commandments to Stop Violence, Pridgen acknowledged on Sunday morning that his congregation was directly connected with at least one of the victims and will be holding two of the funerals for the victims this week, READ MORE...

Single and Loving It?

Many people wonder what goes on behind the closed doors of single women because people believe that single women are lonely, troubled, suffer from sleeplessness, and afraid of dying alone. Although this scenario may be true for some women, a large number of single women are happy, READ MORE...

Poverty and Addictions

By Stuart Harper

Drug abuse is happening right now. From the inner city to the suburbs and out to the rural community, drug abuse is happening as you read this. The drug abuse we are confronted with at the Buffalo City Mission often comes from an attempt by our clients to cover up pain from their past that many times is driving their present behavior. READ MORE...

Eliminating Illiteracy

By Christine A. Setlock

A faith-based initiative to increase volunteers and summer workshops for kids are some of the new programs at Read to Succeed Buffalo, a non-profit organization aimed at battling illiteracy in the inner city. READ MORE…