Every healthy day is a blessing that carries a black cloud on the horizon.

CNN: Living with Crohn's disease: 'Today I will fight again'

You see, the day you start selling black market copper wire to pay for Diet Coke is the day you realize you have a serious problem.

CNN: Apparently This Matters: Drink water, you dummy

The San Francisco startup is closing its web site for the day in protest of Black Friday to make a point about consumerism and focusing on quality over quantity.

FORBES: Protesting Black Friday, Everlane Shuts Down For Day

It is definitely more green than black, unless seen on a snowy day when the landscape appears monochromatic, and it is more a series of thickly wooded hills, high pastures and valleys than one big forest.

BBC: The king of Kuchen in Black Forest, Germany

Calvin Sims, who is black and a reporter for the Times interviews prominent people of the day.

NPR: Living in the Present Means Taking Focus off Past

Somewhere out West, there is an 80-year-old black woman who never thought she'd see the day when a black man would be elected president.

CNN: How Obama made opportunity real in America