Real Life Stories

When Alexis Calice and her family moved to Nairobi they did not expect gunfire, armed gangs and a militant siege.

When she isn’t belting out tunes or racking up Grammys (14 and counting!), Alicia Keys devotes her voice to making the world a better place.

Ratna Rathore Tanwar's friends thought she was being regressive when she let her parents find her a husband. Here she explains why it's modern and how "love marriages" are sometimes a bigger gamble.

Drew Graham shares the heart-wrenching, gutting experience of losing a child — and what this family tragedy taught him about life.

As an experiment, Marci O’Connor decided to strip for total strangers. She shares what it feels like to bare it all for art’s sake.