Confession: I’m not a big MySpace fan.  I’m more of a Facebook kind of girl.  So when I do log in to my MySpace, there’s usually a backlog of bulletins and messages from the hundreds of bands I friended.  I happened to log in yesterday, and after wading through the “Holiday Sale on Our Merch!” [...]

Great music saves lives and with (Red)’s new campaign (RED)WIRE, Five people + Five Dollars can keep one person alive.  RED(WIRE) is a music subscription service service with a purpose.  Half of the $5 monthly fee goes to The Global Fund to provide medicine to persons in Africa living with HIV.
Each weekly issue features an [...]

After 9 Grand Slam wins and two Olympic Gold medals, Serena Williams is in Africa to see the beginning of what she considers her “best achievement” - opening schools in some of the most impoverished regions in Africa. 
Her trip began in South Africa where she opened a secondary school that she helped fund and stock [...]

There’s a new team joining the fight against disease in Africa.  Starbucks has entered the fray by partnering up with Irish singer Bono’s (RED) organization.  Beginning on Thanksgiving day, a portion of each (RED) holiday beverage sold at Starbucks outlets in the US and Canada will go toward the Global Fund, which finances programs that [...]

Rapper and Producer Kanye West has fought Through the Wire to become a dominant force in the music business. Ten Grammy wins and three platinum albums later, Kanye has learned that a successful music career does not just take big dreams, it requires hard work and hard lessons learned along the way. Kanye is using [...]

If all you know about the Hanson brothers is that their hit single “MmmBop” gets stuck in your head everytime you hear it, it’s time to take another look.  
According to Zac Hanson, the band’s latest album, “The Walk is the walk of life.  People make decisions to go for dreams, to do something difficult, or [...]

What do you know about malaria?  We in the United States probably don’t know a lot because the disease isn’t a problem here.  So here’s an FYI:
Fact: Malaria is transmitted via mosquito bites
Fact: Malaria kills approximately 1 million people worldwide every year.
Fact: One person dies of malaria every 30 seconds in Africa.
Fact: American Idol Champion [...]

                      The Associated Press
Hollywood starlet Scarlett Johansson recently took a 4-day trip to Rwanda with (RED), an organization which aims to “engage the private sector in raising awareness and funds for the Global Fund, to help fight AIDS in Africa.”
While in Rwanda, Scarlett met several doctors [...]