4 Beauty Experts Share Their Wellness Practices – Essence
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4 Beauty Experts Share Their Wellness Practices – Essence

Zave Smith / Getty Images With therapy stigmatized and wellness seen as a privilege, mental health is often left untreated in the Black community. Despite…

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AI videos of sexualised black women removed from TikTok after BBC investigation
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AI videos of sexualised black women removed from TikTok after BBC investigation

The BBC, working in collaboration with analysts Jeremy Carrasco and Angel Nulani from Riddance, has identified 60 such accounts, mainly on Instagram, that have carried…

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Black Family Wellness Expo held in Providence
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Black Family Wellness Expo held in Providence

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — The Rhode Island chapter of the the Links Incorporated held a Black Family Wellness Expo in Providence on Saturday. The Black…

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Coalition kicks off campaign for $30 minimum wage in Oakland, Alameda County

The Black Organizing Project, an Oakland-based community organization for the city's Black … Local & Community News · California News · Politics & … Source link

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A historic Black community in Maryland is fighting to protect its last wetlands from development
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A historic Black community in Maryland is fighting to protect its last wetlands from development

Founded by formerly enslaved people, East Towson residents say a new housing project threatens not just land, but generations of history, environmental stability, and community…

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Celebrate Black Joy : This Week’s Best Uplifting Moments – Essence
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Celebrate Black Joy : This Week’s Best Uplifting Moments – Essence

Bryce Harris #34 of the Howard Bison celebrates his three-point basket against the Michigan Wolverines. / (Photo by Ishika Samant/Getty Images) These days, it is…

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Journalist Geoff Bennett discusses his book on Black artists who shaped American comedy

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “INTRO, IN LIVING COLOR”) HEAVY D & THE BOYZ: (Singing) You can do what you wanna do. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Geoff Bennett…

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Third annual Black Family Wellness Expo in Albany connects community and healthcare providers 
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Third annual Black Family Wellness Expo in Albany connects community and healthcare providers 

WALB is working to produce a video for this story. In the meantime, we encourage you to watch our livestream. ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) – The…

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LA’s District 9 won’t have a Black councilmember for the first time in 60 years
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LA’s District 9 won’t have a Black councilmember for the first time in 60 years

When Gilbert Lindsay became the first Black person elected to Los Angeles City Council in 1963, it gave the residents of the predominantly Black District…

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