Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 8 months ago
With the End of the Coal Era, It Just Got Easier to Breathe in New England By Ben Jealous Jerry Curran has been organizing to retire the Merrimack Station coal power plant in Bow, New Hampshire for 17 years. He is one of many local activists who have...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
April is Minority Health Month, a month to raise awareness about the need to reduce health disparities and improve the health of minority communities. The UNC Health Center for Transplant Care team and UNC Health nephrologists recently increased equi...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 8 months ago
(NewsUSA) – April is National Minority Health Month, and Black Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN), and underserved Americans, are among those disproportionately affected by colorectal cancer, according to the Colorectal Cancer...
Lifestyle / Parenting/ Health - 8 months ago
(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Academy Award winner Louis Gossett Jr., the tough guy with a sensitive side best known for his celebrated work in the original Roots and award-winning film, An Officer and a Gentleman, has passed away at the age o...
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This week, we conclude our look at Spiritual PTSD – Purpose, Strength, Trust, and Discernment by exploring how they work together to strengthen us after we experience spiritual warfare. Just like those who have experienced the trauma of a rea...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 8 months ago
Photo: Getty Images A pregnant Nigerian woman is facing jail time over her online review of a tomato puree brand, Metro reports. Chioma Okoli, 39, gave an online critique of tomato puree brand Nagiko Tomato Mix, owned by Nigerian company Erisco Foo...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Each year, Black Maternal Health is recognized from April 11th – 17th to bring attention and action to improving Black Maternal Health. The week is held during National Minority Health Month. Founded and led by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance...
Lifestyle / Hot Topics Talk - 8 months ago
Contributed The Blue Ash Branch of the University of Cincinnati on March 7 held its annual Scholarship Luncheon in recognition of the scholarship recipients and donors. Two students—Natalie Borgert and Cynthia Kudatsi– were awarded the cove...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on Feb. 22, 1956, as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boyc...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer Flojaune Cofer after voting on March 5. Louis Bryant III, OBSERVER With Assemblymember Kevin McCarty and political newcomer Dr. Flojaune Cofer making it to the Nov. 5 election, Sacramento will have i...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
Rick Callender | Special to California Black Media Partners OPINION (CBM) – In the Black community, literacy stands as a cornerstone of empowerment, guiding our way toward liberation and advancement. For centuries, African Americans have...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer Brother Be Well’s website shares valuable mental health information centered on boys and men of color. Founder and director Kristene Smith, inset. A locally based organization is reaching boys and...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By Maria Sherman | The Associated Press This cover image released by Parkwood/Columbia/Sony shows “Act ll: Cowboy Carter” by Beyonce. (Parkwood/Columbia/Sony via AP) LOS ANGELES (AP) — First, Beyoncé arrived at the 2024 Grammy Awards in full co...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
By Amaka Watson | Houston Defender | Word In Black This& post& was originally published on& Defender Network (WIB) – The 9-to-5 grind is a phrase that resonates with countless individuals who feel trapped in the monotony of t...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 8 months ago
(WIB) – Diabetes has been a known disease that has widely affected the Black community — but it is a disease that can be managed. According to a report from the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), diabetes is categorized as a chronic lo...
