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Screenshot: HBO (Youtube The promised HBO adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ award-winning nonfiction work Between The World and Me is set to premiere in a matter of days, and the network has released a stunning trailer to further build anticipation. The trailer features a veritable who’s-who of Black Hollywood. As previously …
Read More »The Letters That Outgoing Presidents Wrote to Their Successors
One of the most crucial aspects of a functioning democracy is the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next. Each of the following five letters, handwritten by an outgoing president and left in the Oval Office for the incoming president to find, reminds us of the sanctity …
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Saving Our Selves: A BET COVID-19 Relief Effort Special Kelly Rowland, Terrence J and Regina Hall host Saving Our Selves, a benefit to help communities of color impacted by COVID-19, featuring DJ Khaled, Chance the Rapper and more. Source link
Read More »Black Inventor Creates Board Game That Teaches Children and Adults How to Start a Business
Elliott Eddie, who has won over five state and two international public speaking awards, has created The Entrepreneur Game, a new board game that teaches children and adults how to start and build a successful home-based and brick & mortar business in the comfort of your own home. The Entrepreneur Game …
Read More »Update Your Closet From Home With These Nordstrom Sales
Image: Nordstrom Featured Deal: Kenneth Cole New York Wool Blend Bouclé Coat | $140 The best Nordstrom sales for November 2020 are here. Though the Anniversary Sale has long passed, Nordstrom bargains never really stop. Right now, you can find thousands of items on sale across every department, whether it’s …
Read More »Earldoms for Girldom
In 2015, Charlotte Carew Pole gave birth to her first child, a daughter she named Jemima. Having her was “a bit of a struggle,” she told me, with some understatement. Carew Pole had been through miscarriages and IVF before Jemima arrived, tiny and blonde and—to her mother—utterly perfect. “We were …
Read More »School Principal And Wife Drown During Puerto Rican Vacation
An Atlanta-area high school principal and his college professor wife reportedly drown during their vacation to Puerto Rico. Jamar Robinson, the principal of Westlake High School in South Fulton, and his wife AnnMari Robinson, an assistant professor at Georgia State University, have been identified as the drowning victims. They reportedly …
Read More »Three MSNBC Contributors Have Left the Network to Become Part of the Biden Administration
After being elected by the American people to lead the nation for the next four years, President-elect Joe Biden has been getting his staff and administration together to start the official transition to the Oval Office. In the process of doing so, according to reporting by the DailyMail, three contributors …
Read More »Louisiana Pediatrician Accused of Punching and Using N-Word While Verbally Assaulting Black Woman Student
Shane McKinneyPhoto: East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office A Louisiana pediatrician was arrested in Baton Rouge Wednesday and charged with punching and verbally assaulting a Black student-athlete at Southern University. KATC 3 reports that 54-year-old Shane McKinney, a pediatrician at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, has …
Read More »What a Simple Haiku Can Do for a Friendship
Judy: Yeah. You get in the mode. If I’m out for a walk or a hike and I see things, I start thinking in haikus. Lisa does it too. We might send three in a day as opposed to just one. Beck: Could you read me the ones you wrote …
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