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The NBA’s regular-season awards do more than hand out trophies. They help define the season, spotlight the players who shaped it and, in some cases, mark the beginning of a new era. With more honors scheduled to be announced throughout the week, this running tracker will be updated as each winner is revealed. Sportsmanship Award: […]
To be greeted by a wall of books gathered from community members, paintings by local artists, and the warm feeling of stepping into the beating heart of a local community, few places evoke these feelings. But the Roots Bookstore and Market in Miami does just that. The seeds of Roots date back to 2015, when […]
For almost a decade, Morgan Brown was known in the industry as a beauty influencer who would occasionally bring her comedic personality into her content. After growing her YouTube following to over 500,000 subscribers, she maintained an interest in business studies and entrepreneurship while balancing matriculation through undergrad and keeping momentum on her platform. What […]
A Tracee Ellis Ross afro was recently renamed a “Cloud Bob” by Vogue Magazine, and just like that, we were reminded how quickly Black women’s hair can be erased, rebranded, and handed back as something new. Not new to us. There is nothing novel about texture, volume, or shape that has lived on our heads […]
When you think of 2016, many things come to mind, from Snapchat filters to the peak era of the beauty and natural hair spaces for Black women. So many memories hit the mind, and on the music side, it seemed like there was a shift in storytelling, and we started seeing the artists of our […]
Ciara Miller is about to cha cha her way into an entirely new era. In an Instagram post on April 23, the Summer House star shared a page from her daily journal, featuring checkboxes for prioritizing herself and taking risks, with her hand strategically placed over the last box. View this post on Instagram A […]
The NBA’s regular-season awards do more than hand out trophies. They help define the season, spotlight the players who shaped it and, in some cases, mark the beginning of a new era. With more honors scheduled to be announced throughout the week, this running tracker will be updated as each winner is revealed. Sixth Man […]
After years of using traditional fish-smoking systems that were hazardous to physical health and environmentally depleting, Gen Zers in Manoka and Douala, Cameroon, sought change. The partnership between the African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests (REACOF) and the Women Organizing for Change In Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) helped to drive a […]
The rain had been teasing us all night. Not enough to interrupt the World Baseball Classic (WBC) game hosted at San Juan’s Hiram Bithron Stadium, but just enough to make itself known. As the crowd settles into their seats, they treat the weather the same way they treat the tension of the game — as […]
Black professionals and specifically women are more susceptible to higher levels of stress due to systemic racism, workplace politics, and various life factors, leading them to experience detrimental effects mentally and physically, leading to “weathering” accelerated physiological aging and cumulative health deterioration, as well as higher rates of hypertension, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and more. However, […]