Category : Lifestyle

Sephora Responds To Viral Video Of Teens Using Makeup Samples For Blackface

Photo: Getty Images Sephora has addressed the viral TikTok video showing a group of teenagers wearing blackface in a Boston store. The TikTok user who recorded the incident said the girls used Sephora’s makeup samples to paint themselves in b...

Sephora Addressed Tik Tok Video Of White Teens Going Blackface In Their Store

Sephora has addressed the viral TikTok video showing a group of teenagers wearing blackface in a Boston store. The TikTok user who recorded the incident said the girls used Sephora’s makeup samples to paint themselves in blackface. In the vid...

Black Americans Deserve More Health Care Options, Not Less

When top Black scientists and physicians gathered on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday in San Francisco, they saw a problem as big as the pandemic for Black health care. This pandemic could take out hospitals, leaving already underserved c...

Relationship Goals: Black Love Stories

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer He’s a firefighter in training from Oakland and she’s a respiration therapist from Baltimore, now living in South Natomas. Jeremy Allen and Jacqueline Taylor bonded over a common love of fitness, out...

Reverend Barber’s Bold Vision: A Vote Revolution Among the Poor

By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware | Word In Black (WIB) – Imagine working 64 hours a week and being unable to cover basic needs like food, shelter, and utilities. Imagine working that many hours at more than one job, and yet not having adequate h...

The 25 best cities for Black women to flourish financially

By Erin C. Perkins | Stacker SNEHIT PHOTO // Shutterstock (Stacker) – Where can Black women feel supported and flourish financially? When posed that question, Dr. Lori Martin, a professor of African and African American studies and s...

‘It’s constant questioning:’ Black families disproportionately represented in Sacramento’s unhoused population

By Sterling Davies | Solving Sacramento Airrea Craven and her two daughters have secured shelter through Saint John’s Program for Real Change after experiencing homelessness for three years. (Photo courtesy of Saint John’s Program for Real Chang...

Museums Help Teach Black Students Too

By Aziah Siid | Word In Black (WIB) – Whether it’s catching students up from pandemic learning loss, or simply working to get — and keep kids — on grade level, there’s no denying teachers have their work cut out for them. And if it takes a...

Dear Single Me

By Jocelyn Jackson Williams | OBSERVER Columnist Valentine’s Day marks the end of Another Singles Awareness season. One could argue that we saved the best for last in its ability to cause the single experience to become as visceral as possible.&a...

What Does Beyonce Have to Do to Win Album of the Year?

By Tony Pierce | Word In Black LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 04: Beyoncé supports Jay-Z as he accepts the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (P...

‘The foundation of the wealth’: Why Black Wall Street boomed

By Ellen Knickmeyer | The Associated Press This photo provided by the Department of Special Collections, McFarlin Library, The University of Tulsa shows an African American woman and girl sitting on a porch swing, both dressed in coats and hats,...

Super Bowl LVIII Was The Most-Watched Program In Television History

Source: Michael Owens / Getty / Super Bowl LVIII / Patrick Mahomes So, despite all the people claiming they were not going to watch this year’s Super Bowl LVIII for many reasons *coughs* Taylor Swift, it turns out this year’s edition of t...

Statue Of Notorious B.I.G. Returns To Brooklyn For Exhibition

Source: The Billie Holiday Theatre / The Billie Holiday Theatre A popular statue commemorating The Notorious B.I.G. will return to Brooklyn for a special exhibit on Black resistance and music in time for Black History Month. Source: The Billie Holida...

What is “A-Town”?

Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty Peace up, A-Town down! Usher just tore the 2024 Super Bowl stage up. The R&B superstar performed all of his biggest hits from Confessions, OMG, U Don’t Have to Call, & more. One song in particular cause...

‘Supporting White Culture’: Florida Bill To Protect Confederate Monuments Advances

A Confederate monument featuring a statue of a Confederate soldier is seen at the Ocala Veterans Park in Ocala, Florida. | Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Republican legislators in Florida are hard at work reminding us that while a full and accurate telli...