Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. You know, there are few things I’ve experienced in life more enjoyable and simultaneously befuddling than witnessing the disparately different personalities of my four children. How can four children …
Read More »The Importance Of Meditation In The Workplace
by Selena Hill March 4, 2024 Originally Published Mar. 19, 2019 Are you having one of those days when you’re buried in paperwork while your boss piles on a list of unrealistic demands and a difficult co-worker manages to get on your very last nerve? If so, then it may …
Read More »The credit score system is a scam, but there are ways to play the game and win
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I was on “TheGrio with Marc Lamont Hill” last week, and one of the topics we discussed was a new service called Score, which bills itself as “the dating …
Read More »Probe finds Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey, top Black college leader, was not bullied before her suicide
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The president of a historically Black Missouri university has been reinstated after an independent investigation cleared him of claims that he bullied another top administrator before she killed herself this year, university leaders announced Thursday. Lincoln University curators called Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey’s January death tragic in an open …
Read More »Study: 79% Of Black Americans Polled Had Regrets About Relocating Last Year; Here’s How To Cut Your Moving Costs
by Jeffrey McKinney March 10, 2024 Last year, Black Americans typically spent approximately $1,500 on moving to a new residence. Seventy-nine percent of Black Americans in a recent study said they had regrets about moving to a new home last year. Some of the top regrets reported by respondents included …
Read More »What to know about the SAVE plan, the income-driven plan to repay student loans
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 75 million student loan borrowers have enrolled in the U.S. government’s newest repayment plan since it launched in August. President Joe Biden recently announced that he was canceling federal student loans for nearly 153,000 borrowers enrolled in the plan, known as the SAVE plan. Forgiveness was …
Read More »Discrimination in health care may also include patient portal responses, study suggests
Black Americans have long struggled to obtain equitable and efficient access to health care, and a new study published in JAMA Network Open indicates that the issue extends to patient portals. According to CBS News, researchers analyzed patient portal message responses from over 39,000 patients at Boston Medical Center in …
Read More »Bounce But Don’t Break: How To Own And Overcome A Crisis
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors March 11, 2024 No matter how successful we are in business, life can, without our permission, drop a bombshell that we never saw coming or could have been prepared for. Originally Published May 27, 2015. No matter how successful we are in business, life can, without …
Read More »Do kids still get allowances?
Remember the concept of monthly or weekly allowances? Depending on your household, you were either given an allowance for doing household chores or, if you were lucky, your parents gave you an allowance just because. Whether that money was your spending money or stowed away safely in your piggy bank, …
Read More »Tracy Morgan packs on 40 pounds ‘out-eating’ the weight loss drug Ozempic
Tracy Morgan has apparently learned the secret to packing on the pounds while taking a popular weight-loss prescription drug. According to People, the actor stopped by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday, where he told the late-night show host that he’d gained 40 pounds while taking Ozempic, an …
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