Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
In December 2023, I had surgery to remove my fibroids. Fibroids are benign tumors that grow in the uterine wall. I’d had the growths for nearly a decade and, even though they were benign, they certainly added difficulty to my life. Heavy periods had...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
Photo: Getty Images Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV and AIDS activist, has died, per 9News. She was 39. On Tuesday (Feb. 20), Hydeia Broadbent’s father, Loren, announced the death of his daughter in a Facebook post. “With great sadnes...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Absynia absynia.info Absynia offers artisan jewelry inspired by the African diaspora handcrafted by designer Elle Lewis. Lewis got her start by repurposing broken jewelry, and soon began making her own using ethically sourced materials. Eyes, suns a...
Lifestyle / Latest Current Topics - 9 months ago
A planned $1.25 billion bond issuance announced by Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday would restructure the City of Chicago’s approach to equitable neighborhood development and distance itself from the challenges of the primary public finance t...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
As we continue into 2024 – a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of public schools in the city through busing – Boston has a unique opportunity to be a leader in embracing an issue that cities and states across the country are...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Fulton Co. task force considers reparations A task force commissioned to study the impact on Black families and possibility of making reparations a reality has entered the research phase ahead of presenting their findings and recommendations to...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Imagine a place where the heartbeat of a community pulses with the rhythm of hope and the promise of a healthier tomorrow. This is the vision behind the Black Family Wellness Expo, an inspiring initiative taking root in the heart of Roanoke Valley...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Every day, I board the M101 bus on the East Side for my five-mile, half-hour commute to the CUNY School of Medicine in Harlem, where I am dean. The neighborhoods connected by this bus line offer a striking illustration of the health disparities that...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Robert J. Hansen | OBSERVER Staff Writer California State Assembly member Lori Wilson. Stock photo, OBSERVER Credit: Louis Bryant III Elected leaders, activists and experts gathered online Feb. 9 for a discussion on the movement to abolish i...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Arzella J. Valentine, 97, accepted a CLBC/CBCC Business Award for owning Woods-Valentine Mortuary in Pasadena. The mortuary started in 1928 and Ms. Valentine and her now-deceased husband Fred Valenti...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Nadira Jamerson | Word In Black Amira Virgil is a gaming content creator and community organizer. Photo courtesy of Amira Virgil. Illustration by Nadira Jamerson/Word In Black. (WIB) – Jerry Lawson and Ed Smith, Black pioneers in the...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By The Associated Press Sculptor Ed Dwight, left, and Dr. Vern Howard, chairman of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission, discuss the vandalism to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument in City Park, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
By Scott Thomas Anderson | Solving Sacramento Dre Benjamin, out front, and the NolaCal Second Liners, lead the Krewes and Kings of Queens Parade in Oak Park on Feb. 3. (Photo by Scott Thomas Anderson) Festive feathers of a madcap umbrella jump...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. Around 15 Black students gathered at 119 Euclid — now the Barner-McDuffie House — Wednesday night for a mental health talk titled “Mind your Matter.” Attend...
Lifestyle / News Talk - 9 months ago
FEBRUARY 21 1933—Song stylist and activist Nina Simone is born Eunice Waymon in Tryon, N.C. She was a child prodigy who was playing the piano by age 4. She had numerous songs to her credit, but one of the most memorable was “Mississippi Goddam”...
