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Read More »Questlove and Black Thought Produce New James Brown Docuseries for A&E
James Brown will have a new docuseries on A&E, exploring his legacy, music, and intimate moments with family, friends, and musical colleagues. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots are executive producing the four-part docuseries, James Brown: Say It Loud. Set to premiere in spring of …
Read More »The Healing CHI Talks Normalizing Conversations About Black Men's Mental Health Through Yoga
Photo: Courtesy of The Healing CHI I don’t know which Black man needs to hear this, but your mental health matters. Despite what the pressures of your peer group, personal aversions, and societal constructs may lead you to believe, seeing yourself and other Black men live, happy, healthy and whole …
Read More »23 Great Movies the Oscars Couldn't Help but Recognize
Every year when the Oscar nominations are announced, I have fun keeping an eye out for a particularly rare phenomenon: the “lone screenplay” nominee—that is, a movie that’s recognized only in the category of Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay. While every member of the Academy of Motion Picture …
Read More »First Black CEO Of Big Brothers Big Sisters Artis Stevens Aims to Honor Ahmaud Arbery Under Leadership
In another historic first in November 2020, Georgia-native Artis Stevens was named the first Black CEO Of youth mentorship nonprofit Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. He shared with CNBC Make It that the first person that came to mind when receiving the title, was Ahmaud Arbery. Hailing from the …
Read More »Jazmine Sullivan, Silk Sonic Lead NAACP Image Awards Music Winners
Jazmine Sullivan attends The “2021 Soul Train Awards” Presented By BET at World Famous Apollo on November 20, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)Photo: Dia Dipasupil (Getty Images) Ahead of its big show Saturday, Feb. 26, the NAACP Image Awards have spent all week handing out …
Read More »Can a Self-Help Book Really Change Your Life?
As a genre, self-help books promise that fulfillment can be attained by sheer individual will. That offer is seductive, and in the midst of a global pandemic and public distress, many readers have stocked up on titles that foreground individual healing, such as Bessel van der Kolk’s ever in-demand The …
Read More »Travel The World Without Breaking The Bank
The new year just started, but many of us are already planning for the next holiday. Tax season brings the accompanying hassle of making sure everything’s signed, sealed, and delivered before the dreaded filing deadline. However, if you’re one of the people who are expected to receive a refund, there’s …
Read More »Black Women Leaders Weigh in on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS Nomination
Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden made history when he nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court of the United States. Nominated to serve as the fifth woman and first African American woman on the Supreme Court in the history of the …
Read More »When Work Is a Terrifying Dystopia
Many people’s experience of work over the past two years, amid a global pandemic, has been one of invasion: Their job has infiltrated the personal sphere, colonizing space that used to be distinct. Apple TV+’s new series Severance jarringly reverses this impression. The show’s setup imagines a complete split between …
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