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It is customary for a Central African tribe to greet its neighbors in an unusual way.  Instead of asking a more Western greeting like, "Whats up?" or "Hows it going?" the Masa people of Cameroon and Chad ask, "How are the children?"  "Even if they dont have children, this is their greeting," explained Monroe County Community College President Kojo Quartey who was born in Ghana. "If the children are not doing well, you probably arent doing that well either."  During a time when the U.S. new...

Local law enforcement is citing its recruitment, training and accountability efforts to urge Monroe County residents...

I moved to this great city in July, 2012, thinking Monroe was a suburb of Detroit and that I was coming to serve a...